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A non-profit group named Profiles Are Invasive (PAI) advocates for restricting companies’ ability to collect information on consumers when this data is used to create profiles based on consumer preferences, behavior, and attitudes. A team of PAI volunteers researched the status of the law in the U.S. Their report concluded:

Doctor Barnaby Boston specializes in surgeries that are not medically necessary such as face lifts. Since most of the procedures Doctor Boston performs would not be covered under insurance, he only accepts credit cards for payment and does not bill insurance. Charlie Cheery, a potential patient, looks online for a doctor to perform a facelift and finds Doctor Boston’s website. When Charlie visits Doctor Boston’s office, Charlie does not receive a privacy notice with his initial paperwork. Charlie asks Doctor Boston for a copy of the privacy notice and is told that the office does not maintain a privacy notice. Is it likely that Doctor Boston has violated HIPAA?

Following a number of major data breaches over the last year, your employer is looking to increase trust in their privacy practices with online consumers. They should:

A woman says the following illogical sentences: “The eagle takes flight at three o’clock and flies here from General Electric. I get my check from the eagle; he goes from the mailbox to make a payment. He is a secret spy for my husband and makes a shotgun sound.” Based on what she says, this woman is most likely experiencing ________ and is displaying a ________ symptom.

If the anti-depressant Prozac did not increase the activity of _____, it would not be effective in treating depression.

Many of the enforcement actions initiated by the FTC result in settlement. If a company decides not to settle the complaint by the FTC, what is the enforcement process that follows?

In 2019, the video sharing company YouTube agreed to settle allegations that the company had illegally collected personal information from children without obtaining their parent’s consent. The assertion made by the FTC is that YouTube’s behavior violated:

Solomon Asch asked people to identify which of three comparison lines was identical to a standard line. His research was designed to study:

Terri Tourist, a resident of Fresno, California, purchased a plane ticket from Global Airlines. The flight was scheduled to leave from Fresno and arrive in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 31, 2021. Terri later decided to change the flight to the next day – January 1, 2022. When Terri contacted Global Airlines to make the adjustment to her reservation, she learned for the first time that Global Airlines used a company named QuickSeat to do the real-time seat assignments for their customers, including Terri’s seat assignment on both the December 31 and January 1 flights. Knowing that the CCPA considers of sale of personal information to include “any disclosure” of personal information to another company, Terri contacted the California Attorney General’s Office with her complaint. What defense is Global Airlines likely to assert?

BMWisBest.com is an online community for BMW car enthusiasts. BMWisBest.com holds the names and birthdates of its members as well as the year, make, and model of their vehicles. As a joke, the head of the rival website – MercedesRule.com – hacks into BMWisBest.com and makes all of the information held by BMWisBest.com public. In most states, BMWisBest.com would likely have to notify the following of this incident: