WGU D333 ETHICS IN TECHNOLOGY –
LAWS ASSESSMENT EXAMS WITH
CORRECT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) - CORRECT
ANSWERS✔️✔️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 ANSWERS✔️✔️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 ANSWERS✔️✔️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 ANSWERS✔️✔️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 ANSWERS✔️✔A ️ n 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 ANSWERS✔️✔️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 ANSWERS✔️✔A ️ n 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.
Communications Decency Act (CDA) - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔T️ itle 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
ANSWERS✔️✔️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.
Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔A ️ n 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 ANSWERS✔️✔S️ igned 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 ANSWERS✔️✔A ️ n 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 ANSWERS✔️✔A ️ n 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 ANSWERS✔️✔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.
LAWS ASSESSMENT EXAMS WITH
CORRECT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) - CORRECT
ANSWERS✔️✔️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 ANSWERS✔️✔️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 ANSWERS✔️✔️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 ANSWERS✔️✔️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 ANSWERS✔️✔A ️ n 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 ANSWERS✔️✔️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 ANSWERS✔️✔A ️ n 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.
Communications Decency Act (CDA) - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔T️ itle 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
ANSWERS✔️✔️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.
Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔A ️ n 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 ANSWERS✔️✔S️ igned 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 ANSWERS✔️✔A ️ n 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 ANSWERS✔️✔A ️ n 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 ANSWERS✔️✔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.
