WGU D333 Ethics in Technology – LAWS Latest Update 2024-2025 Exam Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act - CORRECT ANSWER: Also known as the
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Congress enacted this law in 2006 in memory of a 6 year old abducted from a department store and murdered
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) -
CORRECT ANSWER: An agreement of the World Trade Organization that requires
member governments to ensure that intellectual property rights can be enforced under their laws and that penalties for infringement are tough enough to deter further violations.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - CORRECT ANSWER: Included strong
privacy provisions for EHRs, including banning the sale of health information, promoting the use of audit trails and encryption, and providing rights of access for patients. It also mandated that each individual whose health information has been exposed be notified within 60 days after the discovery of a data breach.
anti-SLAPP laws - CORRECT ANSWER: Laws designed to reduce frivolous SLAPPs
(strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP), which is a lawsuit filed by corporations, government officials, and others against citizens and community groups who oppose them on matters of concern).
Child Online Protection Act (COPA) - CORRECT ANSWER: An act signed into law in
1998 with the aim of prohibiting the making of harmful material available to minors via the Internet; the law was ultimately ruled largely unconstitutional.
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) - CORRECT ANSWER: An act passed in
2000; it required federally financed schools and libraries to use some form of technological protection (such as an Internet filter) to block computer access to obscene material, pornography, and anything else considered harmful to minors.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) - CORRECT ANSWER: Requires
websites that cater to children to offer comprehensive privacy policies, notify parents or guardians about their data collection practices, and receive parental consent before collecting any personal information from children under the age of 13.
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) - CORRECT ANSWER:
An act passed in 1994 that amended the Wiretap Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which required the telecommunications industry to build tools into its products that federal investigators could use—after obtaining a court order—to eavesdrop on conversations and intercept electronic communications. 1 / 2
Communications Decency Act (CDA) - CORRECT ANSWER: Title V of the
Telecommunications Act, it aimed at protecting children from pornography, including imposing $250,000 fines and prison terms of up to two years for the transmission of "indecent" material over the Internet.
Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) -
CORRECT ANSWER: A law that specifies that it is legal to spam, provided the
messages meet a few basic requirements—spammers cannot disguise their identity by using a false return address, the email must include a label specifying that it is an ad or a solicitation, and the email must include a way for recipients to indicate that they do not want future mass mailings.
Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act - CORRECT ANSWER: states that it is legal to spam, provided the messages meet a few basic requirements—spammers cannot disguise their identity by using a false return address, the email must include a label specifying that it is an ad or a solicitation, and the email must include a way for recipients to indicate that they do not want future mass mailings.
Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 - CORRECT ANSWER: An act passed in 2016 that
amended the Economic Espionage Act to create a federal civil remedy for trade secret misappropriation.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) - CORRECT ANSWER: Signed into law in
1998, the act addresses a number of copyright-related issues, with Title II of the act providing limitations on the liability of an Internet service provider for copyright infringement.
Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996 - CORRECT ANSWER: An act passed in 1996
to help law enforcement agencies pursue economic espionage. It imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade secrets.
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) - CORRECT ANSWER: An act that
deals with the protection of 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 from recording dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information without a search warrant.
European Union Data Protection Directive - CORRECT ANSWER: A directive that
requires any company doing business within the borders of the countries comprising the European Union (EU) to implement a set of privacy directives on the fair and appropriate use of information.
Executive order 12333 - CORRECT ANSWER: Identifies the various U.S. governmental intelligence-gathering agencies, and defines what information can be collected,
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