Laws
and Regulation
and Regulation
This act, passed after September 11, 2001, gave sweeping new powers to domestic U.S. law enforcement and U.S. international intelligence agencies by increasing the ability of law enforcement agencies to search telephones, emails, and other records.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
Personal financial info, such as credit cards, checking/saving accounts, payroll, etc.
What is financial data?
Caused by hackers breaking into a database of personal information
What is a data breach?
Text files that can be downloaded from a web browser by visiting a website, storing the user's info and allowing websites to identify visitors. A certain monster loves these.
What is a cookie?
This federal bureau is responsible for protecting the privacy of U.S. consumers.
What is the Federal Trace Commission (FTC)?
This act established the Federal Communications Commission and gave it responsibility to regulate non-federal-government use of radio/television broadcasting, interstate telecommunications, and international communications that originate/terminate in the U.S.
What is the Communications Act (1934)?
This act demands that any Web site that caters to children must offer comprehensive privacy policies, notify parents/guardians about its data collection practices, and receive parental consent before collecting data from children under the age of 13.
What is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (1998)?
Marketing firms aggregate data they gather on these types of people.
What are consumers?
Used in major cities around the world in an effort to deter crimes/terrorist activities. Critics argue its use violates civil liberties through public monitoring.
What are surveillance cameras?
This official document outlines the basic fundamental rights of its people in the United States.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This act establishes a code of fair information practices that sets rules for the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personal data kept in the systems of records by federal agencies.
What is the Privacy Act (1974)?
An amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (1970) that allows consumers to request and obtain a free credit report once per year from each of the primary consumer credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion)
What is the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (2003)?
Digital information of any type (including emails, drawings, Webpages, etc.) stored in an electronic device (such hard drives, CDs, and flash drives)
What is ESI (Electronically Stored Information)?
This device records vehicle and occupant data a few seconds before, during, and after any vehicle crash severe enough to deploy the vehicle's airbags.
What is a vehicle event data recorder (EDR)?
This is a trick statement, double your points.
What's the purpose of this tile?
Under the "Stored Communications Act", which prohibits unauthorized access to stored wire/electronic communications, this letter can be issued to an ISP to request data and records of a service subscriber and turn them over to the government.
What is a National Security Letter (NSL)?
A federal law that assigns certain rights to parents regarding their children's educational records and transfers to the student upon turning 18. This act also presumes that student information will be private and are not available to the public w/o the consent of the student.
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (1974)?
The collection, preparation, review, and production of electronically stored information for use in criminal/civil actions and proceedings
What is e-discovery (Electronic discovery)?
This software can be used to spy on an individual through their cellphone, tracking the victim's location, recording their calls, view their messages/pictures, and other malicious behaviors without the victim's knowledge.
What is a stalking app?
This act is illegal in its method of coercion though financial incentives, personal gain, or status elevation in trade of participation in an activity.
What is bribery?