Ethics in IT - Chapter 4 - Privacy

The right to be left alone.

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

E-discovery is the collection, preparation, review, and production of electronically stored information for use in criminal and civil actions.

<p>To ensure employee productivity, prevent data breaches, and protect company assets.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Advanced surveillance technologies can track location, record conversations, monitor internet activity, and analyze biometric data.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Fair Credit Reporting Act regulates the operations of credit reporting bureaus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Right to Financial Privacy Act protects the records of financial institution customers from unauthorized scrutiny by the federal government.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is a bank deregulation law that includes three personal privacy rules: the financial privacy rule, the opt-out rule, and the safeguards rule.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Customers can refuse to give institutions the right to share personal data with third parties.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act allows consumers to obtain a free credit report once each year from each of the three primary consumer credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>HIPAA aims to improve the portability and continuity of health insurance coverage, reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in health insurance and healthcare delivery, and simplify the administration of health insurance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes provisions related to electronic health records (EHRs).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>FERPA assigns parents rights regarding their children's educational records, including the right to access them, demand that they be disclosed only with student consent, amend them, and file complaints against a school for disclosing them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>COPPA gives parents control over the collection, use, and disclosure of their children's personal information over the internet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act regulates the interception of wire and oral communications. It is also known as the Wiretap Act.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>FISA describes procedures for electronic surveillance and collection of foreign intelligence information in communications between foreign powers and their agents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The FISA Court is established by FISA to hear applications for orders approving electronic surveillance anywhere within the U.S. It meets in secret.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An executive order is an official document used by the U.S. president to manage the operations of the federal government. It is subject to judicial review and can be struck down if determined to be unsupported by statute or the Constitution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Executive Order 12333 identifies the various U.S. governmental intelligence-gathering agencies and defines what information these agencies can collect, retain, and disseminate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Electronic Communications Privacy Act is a law passed as an amendment to Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act. It deals with three main issues: protection of communications while in transfer from sender to receiver, protection of communications held in electronic storage, and prohibition of devices from recording dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information without a search warrant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A National Security Letter is issued by the FBI director to an ISP, and it requires the ISP to provide various data and records about a service subscriber.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The NSL gag provision prohibits NSL recipients from revealing that the government has requested an individual's records.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act required the telecommunications industry to build tools into its products for use by federal investigators, after obtaining a court order, to intercept communications.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The USA PATRIOT Act gave sweeping new powers to both domestic law enforcement and U.S. international intelligence agencies, increasing their ability to search telephone, email, medical, financial, and other records.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 granted a four-year extension of roving wiretaps and searches of business records, and also extended authorized intelligence gathering on 'lone wolves'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The USA Freedom Act was passed following revelations by Edward Snowden of secret NSA surveillance programs. It terminated NSA's bulk collection of telephone metadata, and requires telecommunications providers to hold that data and respond to NSA queries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cookies are text files downloaded to users' hard drives when they visit a website, enabling the website to identify the user on subsequent visits. Tracking software, on the other hand, allows a website to analyze browsing habits and deduce personal interests and preferences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A data breach is the unintended release of sensitive data or the access of sensitive data by unauthorized individuals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cyberloafing is using the internet for purposes unrelated to work, such as posting to Facebook, sending personal emails or texts, or shopping online.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The EDR is a device that records vehicle and occupant data for a few seconds before, during, and after any vehicle crash severe enough to deploy the vehicle's air bags.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stalking app is software that can be loaded onto a cell phone or smartphone and can perform location tracking, record calls, view text messages sent or received, and record the URLs of any website visited on the phone.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fair information practices are a set of guidelines that governs the collection and use of personal data. Transborder data flow is the flow of personal data across national boundaries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The OECD principles include: collection limitation, data quality, purpose specification, use limitation, security safeguards, openness principle, individual participation, and accountability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The European Union Data Protection Directive ensures that data transferred to non-European Union countries is protected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The European-United States Privacy Shield Data Transfer Program Guidelines replaced the Safe Harbor agreement between the U.S. and EU, which was declared invalid by the European Court of Justice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The General Data Protection Regulation is an EU regulation passed in 2016, and it aims to strengthen data protection for individuals within the EU.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Freedom of Information Act grants citizens the right to access certain information and records of federal, state, and local governments upon request.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Privacy Act sets rules for the collection, use, and dissemination of personal data kept by federal agencies.</p> Signup and view all the answers