CS 3162 Test 2

If a business follows an "opt-in" policy for handling personal data, information about a customer ______.

may not be released unless the customer gives permission

The Privacy Act of 1974 established rules to regulate ______.

Federal government databases only

Which of the following requirements was a key provision of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)?

filtering software must be installed on Internet terminals in schools and libraries

Which of the following reasons for monitoring email, voice mail, and computer files is considered NOT legal?

Promote a certain political candidate for upcoming election.

In the term "Free Software," "free" implies all of the following except one.

Free of cost

The practice of hiring companies or employees in other countries is known as _____.

Offshoring

Which of the following is not a factor specified in U.S. copyright law for determining fair use?

The for-profit or non-profit status of the copyright holder

When was the first U.S. copyright law passed?

1790

In one application of a voice-recognition system, the system failed to recognize female speakers. A likely reason was _______.

The program was primarily developed and tested by men

Which of the following is NOT a program used by hackers to gain access to your computer?

Honey pots

Which of the following is NOT an example of biometrics.

Pin

Claim rights or positive rights _______.

impose an obligation on some people to provide certain things for others

Most of the delay in the opening of the Denver International Airport was because of problems with ______.

the baggage handling system

Which of the following is NOT a provision of the CAN-SPAM Act that applies to commercial emailers?

It requires commercial emailers register with the Federal Trade Commission.

Which of the following is NOT a Neo-Luddite criticism of computers?

Computers cause people to be united

(T or F) The government cannot monitor online activity of suspected hackers without a court order.

False

(T or F) The USA PATRIOT Act (2001) gives individuals more protection from governmental intrusion.

False

(T or F) Software designers should include users in the design stages.

True

(T or F) Some computer errors are actually system failures, in that it was the human/computer interface which caused the resulting problem.

True

(T or F) In Katz v. United States (1967), the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the government needs a court order to intrude where a reasonable person has a reasonable expectation of privacy.

True

(T or F) Researchers are developing brain-computer interfaces to enable severely handicapped people to control appliances with their thoughts.

True

(T or F) Copyright law protects processes and inventions, while patent law protects the particular expression of an idea.

False

(T or F) Roughly half of major companies in the U.S. sometimes monitor the email or voice mail of their employees on company systems.

True

(T or F) Broadcast media traditionally has had the strongest First Amendment protection (meaning the fewest regulatory restrictions) while print media has the weakest First Amendment protection.

False

(T or F) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that requiring content filters on public library computers was unconstitutional.

False

One of the reasons the court ruled against Napster was ____.

It knowingly encouraged and assisted in the infringement of copyrights

The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) said that ______,

telecommunications equipment must be designed to allow the interception of telephone calls (with a court order)

In 2000, a French court ordered Yahoo! to block access by French people to _____.

online auction sites containing Nazi materials

In the early days of computing (1960's to the early 1970's), a "hacker" was ____.

A creative programmer who wrote very elegant or clever programs

Hacktivism is ______.

The use of hacking to promote a political cause

Which of the following is NOT an example of a negative right or liberty?

the right to get social security benefits when one gets old for U.S. citizen.

When a person visits a Web site, his or her IP address and the links he or she clicked on are automatically recorded. This is an example of _______.

invisible information gathering

(T or F) Wikipedia relies upon an advertising-based business model.

False

(T or F) Redundancy and self-checking are often present in safety-critical systems.

True

(T or F) U.S. v. Jones (2012) was the first major case of digital technology surveillance and involved police attaching a GPS tracking device to a person's vehicle without a search warrant.

True

(T or F) The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) prohibits employers from intercepting and reading employees' stored email.

False

(T or F) Sony v. Universal City Studios (1983) ruled that private, non-commercial copying for personal use was fair use.

True

(T or F) Legacy systems are typically reliable, but inflexible.

True

(T or F) Sega v. Accolade, Inc. (1992) helped determine that reverse engineering was allowable (fair research use) in order to make a compatible product.

True

(T or F) More people worldwide have access to a cellphone than to a toilet.

True