Laws Flashcards
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
An act that makes it a crime to bribe a:
- Foreign official
- Foreign political party official
- Foreign candidate for political office
Token:
Not permitted to bribe foreign officials
Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing
(CAN-SPAM) Act
A law regulating legal spam.
- May not hide behind a false return address
- Must include a label stating that it is an ad or solicitation
- Must include an opt-out option
Token:
Rules for legal spam
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
A wide-ranging act that included strong security provisions for electronic
health records, such as:
- Banning the sale of health information
- Promoting the use of audit trails and encryption
- Providing rights of access for patients
Token:
Increases security for health records
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
An act that attempts to give parents control over:
- Collection, use, and disclosure of children’s personal information
Token:
Parental control of children’s personal information
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)
An amendment to the Wiretap Act and Electronic Communications Privacy
Act
-The telecommunications industry is required to build tools into its products
that federal investigators could use to eavesdrop on and intercept
conversations and electronic communications.
- Requires a court order
Token:
Gives law enforcement a backdoor to
telecommunications
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
An act that deals with three main issues:
- Protection for the transfer of communications from sender to receiver
- Protection of communications while in storage
- Prohibits devices from recording dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling
information without a search warrant
Token:
Increases security for communications
European Union Data Protection Directive
Requires any company doing business within the EU to:
- Implement a set of privacy directives on the fair and appropriate use of
information
Token:
Information rules for doing business in the EU
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act and:
- Allows consumers to obtain a free credit report once per year from the
three main credit reporting companies
Token:
Allows consumers to monitor their credit
Fair Credit Reporting Act
Regulates the operations of credit bureaus in:
- How credit information is collected, stored, and used.
Token:
How credit information is handled
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- Assigns certain rights to parents regarding their children’s educational records
Token:
Parental rights to children’s educational records
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court
A court that meets in secret that:
- Hears applications for orders approving electronic surveillance in the
United States.
Token:
A secret court for approving spying
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
An act that:
- Describes procedure for electronic surveillance and collection of foreign
intelligence in communications between foreign powers and agents of
foreign powers
Token:
Rules for spying on foreign powers
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments of Act of
2008
An amendment that:
- Granted the NSA ability to collect international communications as they
flowed through the U.S.
- Does not require an approved warrant
Token:
Allow the NSA to spy on non-US communications
Freedom of Information Act
A law that:
- Grants citizens the right to request certain information from the federal,
state, and local governments
Token:
A citizen can ask the government for
information
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
A bank deregulation law that requires loan, financial or investment advice, or insurance companies to:
- Explain information-sharing practices to customers
- Safeguard sensitive data
Token:
Rules for handling private financial
information
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
An act designed to:
- Improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage
- Reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in health insurance
- Simplify the administration of health insurance
Token:
Intended to simplify and enable better health coverage
National Security Letter (NSL)
- Compels holders of your personal records to turn them over to the government
- Is not subject to judicial review or oversight
Token:
A demand for personal records
NSL gag provision
-Prohibits recipients of an NSL from informing anyone including the subject
of the request, that the government has requested their records
Token:
Keeps NSL recipients from telling anyone
PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011
An extension of the USA PATRIOT Act that:
- Allows roving wiretaps
- Allows searches of business records
Token:
Extends wiretapping and looking at records
Privacy Act
A code of fair information practices that sets rules for:
- Collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personal data kept in systems of records by federal agencies
Token:
Rules for how the government handles data
Right to Financial Privacy Act
- Protects records of financial institution customers from unauthorized scrutiny
Token:
Prevents spy on financial records
Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
-Regulates the interception of wire and oral communications
- Also known as the Wiretap Act
Token:
Rules for spying on communications
USA Freedom Act
- Terminated the bulk collection of telephone metadata by the NSA
Token:
Stopped the NSA hoovering up data
USA PATRIOT Act
Gave greater powers to law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
- Increased ability to search telephone, email, medical, financial, and other
records
Token:
Gave more spying ability to government
