privacy Flashcards
(36 cards)
surveillance techniques
phones, laptop cams and mics, can be remotely activated, monitored,
solove’s privacy:
info collection, processing, dissemination, invasion
polygraph protection act
1988: employers can’t require tests or use lie detectors in most cases
Genetic info non-discrim act
health insurance and large employers: can not request genetic info, or use it in decision making
NSA wiretapping
bush signed order: nsa can intercept international phone calls, people can be monitored, 2 al-Qaeda
carnegie endowment report 2019
AI surveillance compiled data on 176 countries, did not distinguish laws,
fisa allows:
oversight of covert surveillance, allow electronic of foreigners,
electronic communications act
1986: allows police to attach surveillance, wiretaps, following suspect
stored communications atc
do not need a search warrant to obtain emails more than 180 days old, nearly 50 companies lobbying to change that
Communications assistance
1994: police can still do wiretapping, FBI can intercept digits type by caller after phone call is sent,
patriot act successes
361 people caught guilty, a shoe bomber Reid, John walker lindh, terrorist cells broken up
Patriot act failures
2004 terrorist in spain, brandon mayfield wrongfully accused on grounds of partial proof, privacy violated
fair credit reporting act
limits info that can be stored in credit report
fair and accurate credit transaction act
2004: right to copy report from each agency to correct error, allows fraud alert in case of identity theft
financial services modernization act
1999: requires notification of privacy policies, must provide opt out, companies must be able to protect info
data mining def:
searching through databases looking for patterns among the data
IRS uses data mining for:
possible data fraud, tax fraud, errors from payments, computer matching
syndromic surveillance systems
data mining system, searches patterns indicating epidemics or bioterrorism (internet searches, 911 calls)
predictive policing
patterns in crime, area patterns,
SSN
Issued in 1936, not unique, checked poorly
for National ID card
would reduce illegal entry, crime,
against national id card
can still be forged, biometric isn’t 100% accurate, wouldn’t reduce crime,
Real ID act
2005: new kind of license, required for bank account, airplane, etc
difficult to replace id’s
FERPA
rights to: students 18+, educational records, errors, release of records with permission
