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Question 1

American Recovery and reinvestment act

Answer 1

A wide-ranging act that authorized $787 billion in spending and tax cuts over a 10-year period and included strong privacy provisions for electronic health records, such as banning the sale of health information, promoting the use of audit trails and encryption, and providing rights of access for patients.

Question 2

Children’s online privacy protection act COPPA

Answer 2

An act implemented in 1998 in an attempt to give parents control over the collection, use, and disclosure of their children’s personal information.

Question 3

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)

Answer 3

An act passed in 1994 that amended the Wiretap Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which required the telecommunications industry to build tools into its products that federal investigators could use—after obtaining a court order—to eavesdrop on conversations and intercept electronic communications.

Question 4

Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)

Answer 4

An act passed in 1994 that amended the Wiretap Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which required the telecommunications industry to build tools into its products that federal investigators could use—after obtaining a court order—to eavesdrop on conversations and intercept electronic communications.

Question 5

Electronic Discovery

Answer 5

The collection, preparation, review, and production of electronically stored information for use in criminal and civil actions and proceedings.

Question 6

Electronically stored information

Answer 6

Any form of digital information, including emails, drawings, graphs, web pages, photographs, word-processing files, sound recordings, and databases stored on any form of magnetic storage device, including hard drives, CDs, and flash drives.

Question 7

European Union Data Protection Directive

Answer 7

A directive that requires any company doing business within the borders of the countries comprising the European Union (EU) to implement a set of privacy directives on the fair and appropriate use of information.

Question 8

Fair and accurate credit transactions act

Answer 8

An amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act passed in 2003 that allows consumers to request and obtain a free credit report once each year from each of the three primary consumer credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion).

Question 9

Fair credit reporting act

Answer 9

An act that regulates the operations of credit-reporting bureaus, including how they collect, store, and use credit information.

Question 10

fair information practices

Answer 10

A term for a set of guidelines that govern the collection and use of personal data.

Question 11

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Answer 11

A federal law that assigns certain rights to parents regarding their children’s educational records.

Question 12

FISA Court

Answer 12

Created by the FISA, this court meets in secret to hear applications for orders approving electronic surveillance anywhere within the United States

Question 13

foreign intelligence

Answer 13

Information relating to the capabilities, intentions, or activities of foreign governments or agents of foreign governments or foreign organizations.

Question 14

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendment Acts of 2008

Answer 14

An act that granted NSA expanded authority to collect, without court-approved warrants, international communications as they flow through U.S. telecommunications network equipment and facilities.

Question 15

Gramm- Leach-Bliley Act

Answer 15

A bank deregulation law that repealed a Depression-era law known as Glass–Steagall and requires companies that offer consumers financial products or services like loans, financial or investment advice, or insurance—to explain their information-sharing practices to their customers and to safeguard sensitive data.

Question 16

HIPPA

Answer 16

An act designed to improve the portability and continuity of health insurance coverage; to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in health insurance and healthcare delivery; and to simplify the administration of health insurance.

Question 17

litigation hold notice

Answer 17

Instructions sent by organizations to inform its employees (or employees of the opposing party) to save relevant data and to suspend data that might be due to be destroyed based on normal data-retention rules.

Question 18

opt in

Answer 18

To give an organization the right to share personal data, such as annual earnings, net worth, employers, personal investment information, loan amounts, and Social Security numbers, to other organizations.

Question 19

opt out

Answer 19

To refuse to give an organization the right to collect and share personal data with unaffiliated parties.

Question 20

PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011

Answer 20

An act that granted a four-year extension of two key provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act that allowed roving wiretaps and searches of business records.

Question 21

pen register

Answer 21

A device that records electronic impulses to identify the numbers dialed for outgoing calls.

Question 22

predictive coding

Answer 22

A process that couples human guidance with computer-driven concept searching in order to “train” document review software to recognize relevant documents within a large collection of documents.

Question 23

right to financial privacy act

Answer 23

An act that protects the records of financial institution customers from unauthorized scrutiny by the federal government.

Question 24

Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act ( Wire tap act)

Answer 24

A law that regulates the interception of wire (telephone) and oral communications; also known as the Wiretap Act.

Question 25

transborder data flow

Answer 25

The flow of personal data across national boundaries.

Question 26

trap and trace

Answer 26

A device that records the originating number of incoming calls for a particular phone number

Question 27

USA Freedom Act

Answer 27

An act passed following startling revelations by Edward Snowden of secret NSA surveillance programs, which terminated the bulk collection of telephone metadata by the NSA.

Question 28

USA PATRIOT Act

Answer 28

An act passed 5 weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It gave sweeping new powers both to domestic law enforcement and U.S. international intelligence agencies, including increasing the ability of law enforcement agencies to search telephone, email, medical, financial, and other records

Question 29

vehicle event data recorder (EDR)

Answer 29

A device that records vehicle and occupant data for a few seconds before, during, and after any vehicle crash that is severe enough to deploy the vehicle’s air bags.