CIPP-US Practice Test

Which act violates the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA)?

A.

A K-12 assessment vendor obtains a student’s signed essay about her hometown from her school to use as an exemplar for public release

B.

A university posts a public student directory that includes names, hometowns, e-mail addresses, and majors

C.

A newspaper prints the names, grade levels, and hometowns of students who made the quarterly honor roll

D.

University police provide an arrest report to a student’s hometown police, who suspect him of a similar crime

Most states with data breach notification laws indicate that notice to affected individuals must be sent in the “most expeditious time possible without unreasonable delay.” By contrast, which of the following states currently imposes a definite limit for notification to affected individuals?

A.

Maine

B.

Florida

C.

New York

D.

California

SCENARIO
Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION
Otto is preparing a report to his Board of Directors at Filtration Station, where he is responsible for the privacy program. Filtration Station is a U.S. company that sells filters and tubing products to pharmaceutical companies for research use. The company is based in Seattle, Washington, with offices throughout the U.S. and Asia. It sells to business customers across both the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific region. Filtration Station participates in the Cross-Border Privacy Rules system of the APEC Privacy Framework.
Unfortunately, Filtration Station suffered a data breach in the previous quarter. An unknown
third party was able to gain access to Filtration Station’s network and was able to steal data relating to employees in the company’s Human Resources database, which is hosted by a third-party cloud provider based in the U.S. The HR data is encrypted. Filtration Station also uses the third-party cloud provider to host its business marketing contact database. The marketing database was not affected by the data breach. It appears that the data breach was caused when a system administrator at the cloud provider stored the encryption keys with the data
itself.
The Board has asked Otto to provide information about the data breach and how updates on new developments in privacy laws and regulations apply to Filtration Station. They are particularly concerned about staying up to date on the various U.S. state laws and regulations that have been in the news, especially the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and breach notification requirements.
The Board has asked Otto whether the company will need to comply with the new California Consumer Privacy Law (CCPA). What should Otto tell the Board?

A.

That CCPA will apply to the company only after the California Attorney General determines that it will enforce the statute. 

B.

That the company is governed by CCPA, but does not need to take any additional steps because it follows CPBR.

C.

That business contact information could be considered personal information governed by CCPA.

D.

That CCPA only applies to companies based in California, which exempts the company from compliance.

Which of the following privacy rights is NOT available under the Colorado Privacy Act?

A.

The right to access sensitive data.

B.

The right to correct sensitive data.

C.

The right to delete sensitive data.

D.

The right to limit the use of sensitive data.

SCENARIO
Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:
Matt went into his son’s bedroom one evening and found him stretched out on his bed
typing on his laptop. “Doing your network?” Matt asked hopefully.
“No,” the boy said. “I’m filling out a survey.”
Matt looked over his son’s shoulder at his computer screen. “What kind of survey?” “It’s asking Questions about my opinions.”
“Let me see,” Matt said, and began reading the list of Questions that his son had already answered. “It’s asking your opinions about the government and citizenship. That’s a little odd. You’re only ten.”
Matt wondered how the web link to the survey had ended up in his son’s email inbox. Thinking the message might have been sent to his son by mistake he opened it and read it. It had come from an entity called the Leadership Project, and the content and the graphics indicated that it was intended for children. As Matt read further he learned that kids who took the survey were automatically registered in a contest to win the first book in a series about famous leaders.
To Matt, this clearly seemed like a marketing ploy to solicit goods and services to children. He asked his son if he had been prompted to give information about himself in order to take the survey. His son told him he had been asked to give his name, address, telephone number, and date of birth, and to answer Questions about his favorite games and toys.
Matt was concerned. He doubted if it was legal for the marketer to collect information from his son in the way that it was. Then he noticed several other commercial emails from marketers advertising products for children in his son’s inbox, and he decided it was time to report the incident to the proper authorities.
Based on the incident, the FTC’s enforcement actions against the marketer would most likely include what violation?

A.

Intruding upon the privacy of a family with young children.

B.

Collecting information from a child under the age of thirteen.

C.

Failing to notify of a breach of children’s private information.

D.

Disregarding the privacy policy of the children’s marketing industry.