Deck 6: Privacy and the Government

Question 1

After Congress ruled that wiretapping was illegal
a) the FBI ceased all wiretapping activity.
b) the FBI continued wiretapping people secretly.
c) the FBI convinced Congress to grant it an exemption from the ban.
d) the FBI began wiretapping every member of Congress.
e) the CIA took over the job of wiretapping U.S. citizens.

Answer 1

the FBI continued wiretapping people secretly

Question 2

The Census Bureau has not always kept confidential the information it has collected. According to the textbook, this became apparent
a) during the Civil War.
b) after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
c) during the Vietnam War.
d) during the first Gulf War.
e) after September 11, 2001.

Answer 2

after the attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 3

Which of the following precepts is not part of the Code of Fair Information Practices?
a) There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret.
b) There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used.
c) There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person.
d) There must be a way for a person to collect damages for financial losses caused by incorrect information about that person stored in a data record-keeping system.
e) There must be a way for a person to prevent information obtained for one purpose being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent.

Answer 3

There must be a way for a person to collect damages for financial losses caused by incorrect information about that person stored in a data record-keeping system

Question 4

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
a) gives consumers the right to request a free copy of their credit report every year.
b) allows credit bureaus to sell personal financial information they have gathered.
c) makes it possible for a consumer to declare bankruptcy without harming his or her credit rating.
d) ensures that people with criminal convictions are still able to obtain credit.
e) All of the above

Question 5

Which of the following is not one of the categories in Daniel Solove's taxonomy of privacy?
a) information collection.
b) information dissemination.
c) information filtering.
d) information processing.
e) invasion.

Question 6

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which U.S. governmental agency collected telephone call records of tens of millions of Americans without a court order?
a) Central Intelligence Agency
b) Department of Homeland Security
c) Federal Bureau of Investigation
d) Federal Communications Commission
e) National Security Agency

Question 7

What was the original purpose of Operation Shamrock?
a) Intercept all international telegrams entering or leaving the United States.
b) Wiretap all calls made from public telephone booths.
c) Scan email messages to identify drug dealers.
d) Read all letters going between the United States and Ireland.
e) Identify Irish-Americans raising money for the IRA.

Question 8

The Fair Credit Reporting Act
a) gives consumers the right to request a free copy of their credit report every year.
b) ensures that information about criminal convictions does not haunt a consumer's credit report forever.
c) is designed to promote the accuracy of credit reports.
d) makes it possible for a consumer to declare bankruptcy without harming his or her credit rating.
e) All of the above

Question 9

Which of the following laws does not provide some sort of authorization for governmental wiretapping?
a) Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
b) Electronic Communications Privacy Act
c) Federal Communications Act
d) Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
e) USA PATRIOT Act

Question 10

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
a) applies to all private employers, but not state or federal agencies.
b) prohibits most employers from taking genetic information into account when making hiring, firing, promotion, or other employment-related decisions.
c) ensures a life insurance company cannot take genetic information into account when making a decision about underwriting a policy.
d) All of the above.
e) None of the above.

Question 11

According to records leaked to the Guardian newspaper, which of the following kinds of information were not released by Verizon to the National Security Agency?
a) Date of the telephone call
b) Duration of the telephone call
c) Location of the telephone making the call
d) Recording of the conversation
e) Time of the telephone call

Question 12

The FBI's National Crime Information Center database
a) contains more than 39 million records.
b) has information about every American citizen.
c) has never led to a false arrest.
d) is updated only once a week to give the FBI time to check the accuracy of the data.
e) All of the above

Question 13

Which of the following statements about the REAL ID Act is not true?
a) The REAL ID Act required states to issue new driver's licenses with stronger verification of identities before licenses are issued.
b) The driver's licenses mandated by the REAL ID Act have security features designed to prevent tampering, counterfeiting, and duplication.
c) Legislatures in about half the states passed laws or resolutions opposing the REAL ID Act.
d) Between 70 and 80 percent of US drivers now hold licenses from states that meet the standards of the REAL ID Act.
e) Congress repealed the REAL ID Act after many states refused to issue new driver's licenses.

Question 14

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act

A) gives students 18 years of age and older the right to review their educational records.
B) gives students 18 years of age and older the right to request corrections to errors in their educational records.
C) gives students 18 years of age and older the right to prevent educational records from being released without their permission, except under certain circumstances.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 15

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution has to do with
a) freedom of speech and religion.
b) search warrants.
c) the right to bear arms.
d) quartering of soldiers in private homes.
e) self-incrimination.

Question 16

The Financial Services Modernization Act
a) allows banks to offer insurance and stock brokerage services.
b) requires banks to disclose their privacy policies to consumers.
c) requires banks to inform consumers how they can "opt out" of having their confidential information released to other companies.
d) Requires banks to develop policies that will prevent unauthorized access of customers' confidential information.
e) All of the above

Question 17

The USA Freedom Act, passed in 2015, is significant because
a) it put new restrictions on the government's surveillance activities.
b) it made permanent the surveillance activities begun under the USA PATRIOT Act.
c) it authorized the National Security Agency to collect customer telephone call records in bulk.
d) it authorized the National Security Agency to record telephone calls of all Americans.
e) it prohibited any federal or state police agency from recording telephone calls made by members of Congress, even with a warrant.

Question 18

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
a) makes it illegal for an online service to request a credit card number from a child 17 years old and younger.
b) requires online services to create aliases for all customers who are 17 years old and younger.
c) makes it illegal for children 12 years and younger to participate in chat rooms.
d) requires online services to obtain parental consent before collecting any information from children 12 years old and younger.
e) All of the above

Question 19

The OneDOJ database
a) is a national database that consolidates records from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
b) gives state and local police officers access to information provided by five federal law enforcement agencies.
c) combines records from all U.S. governmental agencies into a single database that can be used by data mining by the FBI.
d) received the endorsement of the ACLU for its innovative privacy-protection measures.
e) is the first database created by the U.S. government that completely implements the Code of Fair Information Practices.

Question 20

According to the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, which organizations) cannot administer lie detector tests to job applicants?
a) most private employers
b) local governments
c) state governments
d) federal government
e) All of the above

Question 21

In Carpenter v. United States, the US Supreme Court ruled that it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment when police or prosecutors access what kind of information without a search warrant?

A) Cell phone location information
B) Lists of numbers called by a cell phone
C) Lists of numbers that have called the cell phone
D) Recordings of cell phone conversations
E) All of the above

Question 22

The Video Privacy Protection Act
a) prohibits video stores from disclosing rental records without the written consent of the customer.
b) prohibits DVD manufacturers from installing software that sends reports over the Internet every time a DVD is played.
c) makes it legal to send "adult" DVDs through the mail without a warning label on the envelope.
d) prohibits the government from prosecuting minors who play "adult" DVDs in their own home.
e) All of the above

Question 23

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
a) ensures that a consumer can keep the same health care provider even when he or she changes employers.
b) attempts to limit the exchange of information among health care providers to that information necessary to care for the patient.
c) ensures that a consumer can sue doctors and hospitals for medical malpractice.
d) ensures that doctors and hospitals can counter sue patients who file frivolous medical malpractice claims.
e) All of the above