Surveillance Technology & Concerns
This 1974 U.S. law gives individuals the right to access and correct their records and restricts data sharing without consent.
What is the Privacy Act of 1974?
This 2002 act requires privacy impact assessments for electronic data collection and ensures transparency in handling personal information.
What is the E-Government Act of 2002?
This process scrambles data into a code that can only be decoded by authorized parties.
What is encryption?
In 2019, this tech giant was fined $5 billion by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for mishandling user data and violating privacy agreements.
What is Facebook?
This 1995 directive established strong data protection principles in the EU, requiring companies to follow strict guidelines on collecting, storing, and processing personal data.
What is the Data Protection Directive?
This U.S. agency collects and analyzes foreign intelligence, protecting U.S. communications and breaking codes.
What is the NSA (National Security Agency)?
This U.S. "watchdog" agency ensures that the government complies with privacy regulations and oversees federal activities.
What is the Government Accountability Office (GAO)?
This technique is called “The Art and Science of hiding data in plain sight”
What is cryptography?
This view on privacy regulation supports voluntary agreements, informed consent, and market-driven solutions rather than strict government enforcement
What is the free market view?
This regulation, which replaced the 1995 Data Protection Directive, took effect in 2018 and significantly expanded privacy rights and data protection measures in the EU.
What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
In 2001, this event in Tampa raised privacy concerns as 100,000 attendees were scanned without their consent.
What is the Super Bowl "Snooper Bowl"?
This law, passed in 2005, requires verification of identity for state-issued IDs and driver’s licenses
What is the REAL ID Act?
This big tech company had a disagreement with the FBI in 2016 regarding encryption
Who is Apple?
This opposing privacy perspective argues that individuals do not fully understand the consequences of data collection and require strong legal protections.
What is the consumer protection view?
This principle in EU privacy law allows individuals to request the removal of personal information from search engine results if it is outdated or irrelevant.
What is the Right to Be Forgotten?
This major event in 2013 revealed classified documents showing NSA's surveillance activities, including monitoring foreign leaders and collecting domestic data.
What is the Edward Snowden Leak?
This term refers to the risk of tracking individuals throughout their entire lives, from K-12 education to career choices, with no safeguards in place.
What is "Cradle-to-Grave" tracking?
This illegal online blackmarket allowed for users to buy and cell products and services anonymously using cryptocurrency.
What is the Silk Road?
This legal scholar and judge argued that privacy should be treated as an economic good, where property rights should apply only to valuable or costly-to-obtain information.
Who is Richard Posner?
This country found some of Facebook’s data policies illegal. They also banned Facebook from using face recognition for tagging users.
What is Germany?