Exam 6: Privacy and the Government

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Congress passed the , which gave federal law enforcement and intelligence officials greater authority to monitor communications.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires online services to obtain parental consent before collecting any information from children years old and younger.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act limits how doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies can use collected from patients.

After Congress ruled that wiretapping was illegal

The Video Privacy Protection Act

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act requires the three major credit bureaus to provide customers a free copy of their credit report every months.

To protect citizens from interruptions by telemarketers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission created the in 2003.

The is a federal law signed in 1966 that is designed to ensure that citizens have access to records of the U.S. government.

The CALM Act, signed by President Obama in 2010, requires that television commercials .

Which of the following laws does not provide some sort of authorization for governmental wiretapping?

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has to do with

The Financial Services Modernization Act

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Between 1945 and 1975 the U.S. government secretly monitored telegram traffic entering and leaving the United States, as well as other communications. The name of this project was .

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

Which of the following precepts is not part of the Code of Fair Information Practices?

The FBI's National Crime Information Center database

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act

What was the original purpose of Operation Shamrock?

The FBI maintains a collection of databases supporting the activities of federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies in the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Canada. These databases are given the name .