WGU C961 Ethics in Technology Suggested Study
Questions and 100% Verified Answers
Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act - ✅✅regulates the
interception of wire (telephone) and oral communications.
Wiretap Act - ✅✅Another name for Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and
Safe Streets Act
FISA - ✅✅describes procedures for the electronic surveillance and collection of
foreign intelligence information between foreign powers and agents of foreign
powers.
Executive Order 12333 - ✅✅identifies various government intelligence-
gathering agencies and defines what information can be collected, retained, and
disseminated by the agencies. It allows for the tangential collection of U.S. citizen
data—even when those citizens are not specifically targeted.
The ECPA - ✅✅deals with the protection of communications while in transit
from sender to receiver; the protection of communications held in electronic
storage; and the prohibition of devices from recording dialing, routing,
addressing, and signaling information without a search warrant.
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) - ✅✅requires
the telecommunications industry to build tools into its products that federal
investigators can use—after gaining a court order—to eavesdrop on
conversations and intercept electronic communications.
,The USA PATRIOT Act - ✅✅modified 15 existing statutes and gave sweeping
new powers both to domestic law enforcement and to international intelligence
agencies, including increasing the ability of law enforcement agencies to
eavesdrop on telephone communication; intercept email messages; and search
medical, financial, and other records. The act also eased restrictions on foreign
intelligence gathering in the United States.
FISA of 2004 - ✅✅authorized intelligence gathering on individuals not affiliated
with any known terrorist organization (so-called "lone wolves").
The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 - ✅✅granted the NSA expanded authority to
collect, without court-approved warrants, international communications as they
flow through the U.S. telecommunications equipment and facilities.
The PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act - ✅✅granted a four-year extension of
provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that allowed roving wiretaps and searches of
business records. It also extended authorization for intelligence gathering on
"lone wolves."
The USA Freedom Act - ✅✅terminated the bulk collection of telephone
metadata by the NSA, instead requiring telecommunications carriers to hold the
data and respond to NSA queries for data. The act also restored authorization for
roving wiretaps and the tracking of lone wolf terrorists.
"Fair information practices" - ✅✅a set of guidelines that govern the collection
and use of personal data. Various organizations and countries have developed
their own set of such guidelines and call them by different names.
, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for the
Protection of Privacy and Transborder Data Flows of Personal Data - ✅✅created
a set of fair information practices that are often held up as the model for
organizations to adopt for the ethical treatment of consumer data.
The European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive - ✅✅requires member
countries to protect data transferred to non-EU countries. It also bars the export
of data to countries that do not have data privacy protection standards
comparable to those of the EU. After the passage of this directive, the EU and the
United States worked out an agreement that allowed U.S. companies that were
certified as meeting certain "safe harbor" principles to process and store data of
European consumers and companies.
The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Data Transfer Program Guidelines - ✅✅a stop-gap
measure that allows businesses to transfer personal data about European citizens
to the United States. The guidelines were established after the European Court of
Justice declared the Safe Harbor agreement invalid between the EU and the
United States.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - ✅✅addresses the export of
personal data outside the EU, enabling citizens to see and correct their personal
data, standardizing data privacy regulations within the EU, and establishing
substantial penalties for the violation of its guidelines.
FOIA - ✅✅grants citizens the right to access certain information and records of
the federal government upon request.
The Privacy Act - ✅✅prohibits U.S. government agencies from concealing the
existence of any personal data record-keeping system.
Questions and 100% Verified Answers
Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act - ✅✅regulates the
interception of wire (telephone) and oral communications.
Wiretap Act - ✅✅Another name for Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and
Safe Streets Act
FISA - ✅✅describes procedures for the electronic surveillance and collection of
foreign intelligence information between foreign powers and agents of foreign
powers.
Executive Order 12333 - ✅✅identifies various government intelligence-
gathering agencies and defines what information can be collected, retained, and
disseminated by the agencies. It allows for the tangential collection of U.S. citizen
data—even when those citizens are not specifically targeted.
The ECPA - ✅✅deals with the protection of communications while in transit
from sender to receiver; the protection of communications held in electronic
storage; and the prohibition of devices from recording dialing, routing,
addressing, and signaling information without a search warrant.
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) - ✅✅requires
the telecommunications industry to build tools into its products that federal
investigators can use—after gaining a court order—to eavesdrop on
conversations and intercept electronic communications.
,The USA PATRIOT Act - ✅✅modified 15 existing statutes and gave sweeping
new powers both to domestic law enforcement and to international intelligence
agencies, including increasing the ability of law enforcement agencies to
eavesdrop on telephone communication; intercept email messages; and search
medical, financial, and other records. The act also eased restrictions on foreign
intelligence gathering in the United States.
FISA of 2004 - ✅✅authorized intelligence gathering on individuals not affiliated
with any known terrorist organization (so-called "lone wolves").
The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 - ✅✅granted the NSA expanded authority to
collect, without court-approved warrants, international communications as they
flow through the U.S. telecommunications equipment and facilities.
The PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act - ✅✅granted a four-year extension of
provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that allowed roving wiretaps and searches of
business records. It also extended authorization for intelligence gathering on
"lone wolves."
The USA Freedom Act - ✅✅terminated the bulk collection of telephone
metadata by the NSA, instead requiring telecommunications carriers to hold the
data and respond to NSA queries for data. The act also restored authorization for
roving wiretaps and the tracking of lone wolf terrorists.
"Fair information practices" - ✅✅a set of guidelines that govern the collection
and use of personal data. Various organizations and countries have developed
their own set of such guidelines and call them by different names.
, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for the
Protection of Privacy and Transborder Data Flows of Personal Data - ✅✅created
a set of fair information practices that are often held up as the model for
organizations to adopt for the ethical treatment of consumer data.
The European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive - ✅✅requires member
countries to protect data transferred to non-EU countries. It also bars the export
of data to countries that do not have data privacy protection standards
comparable to those of the EU. After the passage of this directive, the EU and the
United States worked out an agreement that allowed U.S. companies that were
certified as meeting certain "safe harbor" principles to process and store data of
European consumers and companies.
The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Data Transfer Program Guidelines - ✅✅a stop-gap
measure that allows businesses to transfer personal data about European citizens
to the United States. The guidelines were established after the European Court of
Justice declared the Safe Harbor agreement invalid between the EU and the
United States.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - ✅✅addresses the export of
personal data outside the EU, enabling citizens to see and correct their personal
data, standardizing data privacy regulations within the EU, and establishing
substantial penalties for the violation of its guidelines.
FOIA - ✅✅grants citizens the right to access certain information and records of
the federal government upon request.
The Privacy Act - ✅✅prohibits U.S. government agencies from concealing the
existence of any personal data record-keeping system.
