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| The combination of communication privacy ( the ability to communicate with other without those communications being monitored by perons or organizations) and data privacy (the ability to limit access to one's personal data by other individuals and organizations in order to exercise a substantial degree of control over that data and its use). |
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| Fair Credit Reporting Act |
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| A law passed in 1970 that regulates the operations of credit reporting bureaus, including how they collect store, and use credit information. |
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| A 1999 bank deregulation law, aslo known as the Financial serives modernization Act, which granted banks the rgiht to offer investment, commercial banking and insuracne serive through a single entity. |
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| To refuse to give an organization the right to collect and share one's personal data with unaffiliated parties. |
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| Health Insurace Prtability and accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) |
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| A law designed to improve the prtability and continuity of health insurance coverage; to reduce frad, waste and abuse in health insurace and heathcare delivery; and to simplify the administration of health insureace. |
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| Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) |
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| A 1998 law that requires web sites that cater to childerns to offer comprehensive privacy policies notify parentes or guardians about their daya collection practices and receive parental consent before collection any personal information from childern under 13 years of age. |
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| Communications Act of 1934 |
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| The law that established the Fedreal communications connussion and gave it responsibility for regulation all mom -federal goverment use of radio and televison brpadcasting and all interstate telecommunications including wire satelite and calbe as well as all international communications that originate or terminate in the United States. |
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| Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act |
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| A component of a 1968 law that tegulates the interception of wire and oral communications also knowen as the Wiretap Act. |
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| Foregin Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) |
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| An act passes in 1978 that describes procedures for the electronic surveillance and collection of foreign intelligence information in communications between foreign powers and agents of foreign powers |
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| Information relationg to the capabilities intentions or activities of foreign governments or foreign organizations. |
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| Forgen Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act |
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| An act passes in 2008 that both revised many of the FISA procedures for gathering foreign intelligence and implemented legal protections for electronic communications service providers who previously provided consumer data to NSA and the CIA. |
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| Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) |
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| A law focusing on three main issues(1) the protection of communications while in transfer from sender to receiver(2) the protection of communications held in electronic storage and (3) the prohibition of devices to record dialing routing aaddressing and signaling informatin without a serach warrant. |
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| A device that records electronic impilses to identify the numbers dialed for outgoing calls. |
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| A device that records electronicimpilses to identify the originating number for incoming calls. |
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| Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) |
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| A 1994 law that amended both the Wiretap Act and ECPA; it required the relecommunications insustry to build tools into its products that federal incestigators could use after obtaining a court order to eavesdrop on conversations and intercepts electronic communications. |
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| A law passed in 2001 that gave sweeping new pwers both to domestic lway enforvement and intelligence agencies including increasing the ability of law enforcement agenceis to search elephone, e-mail-medical finanical and other records, and easing restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering in the United States. |
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| A provision that terminates or repeals a law or portions of it after a specific date unless further legislative action is taken to extend the law. |
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| Fair Information Practices |
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| A set of eight principles created by the organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developemnt that provies guidelines for the ethical treatment of consumer data. |
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| European Union Data Protection Directive |
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| A directuve passes by the European Union in 1998 that requires any company doing business within the borders of 15 western european nations to implement a set of privacy directives on the fair and appropriate use of information; it also bars the exprot of data to countries that do no have comparable data pribacy protection standards. |
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| Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) |
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| A law passed in 1966 and amended in 1974 that grants citizens the right to access certain inforation and refords of the federal goverment upon request. |
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| A law decreeing that no agency of the U.S. Government con conceal the existence of any peraonl data reford keeping system; under this law any agency that maintains such a system must publicly describe both the kids of information in it and the manner in which the information will be used. |
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| The act of stealing key pieces of personal informationto impersonate a person. |
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| Keystroke logging software downloaded to users' computers without the kowledge or consent of the user. |
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| A text filethat a web site downloads to vistors hard drives so that it can identify them on subsequent visits. |
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| A group of web sites served by a single adertising network. |
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| Information gathered by monitoring a sonsumer's online activity through the use of cookeis. |
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| Software used by online marketers to optimize the numberfrequency and mixture of their ad placement as well as to evaluate how vistors react to new ads. |
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| Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) |
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| Screening softwrea that shields users from sites that do not provide the level of privacy protected they desire. |
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| a senior manager within an organization whoes role is to both ensure that the organization does not violate government regulations and reassure customers that their privacy will be protected. |
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