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Quiz: Data Privacy

August 22, 2019

Think you’re careful about sharing your personal information online? Find out how much you really know about data privacy.

In 1999, the CEO of tech company Sun Microsystems famously told a group of reporters that consumers “have zero privacy,” adding that they should:*
- “demand action from Congress”
- “get over it”
- “stop using the internet”
- “understand the risks”
Last month, the Federal Trade Commission fined this tech company a record $5 billion for breaches in its users’ data privacy:*
- Google
- Amazon
- Facebook
- Twitter
A Georgia high school teacher recently won $10,000 for accomplishing which of the following feats?*
- Correctly guessing how many data breaches took place last year
- Proactively selling her detailed personal information to marketing companies
- Reading the terms and conditions that came with an insurance policy she had purchased
- Exposing security flaws in Florida’s voter database
In 2018, a landmark data privacy law called the General Data Protection Regulation took effect in:*
- The European Union
- California
- Canada
- Australia
Datum is one of several tech startups that enables consumers to do what with their online data?*
- Remove it from all known databases
- Bury it in search engine results
- Find out if it has been sold on the dark web
- Sell it directly to advertisers
In a poll earlier this year, 18 percent of those surveyed said they would do what if it meant tech companies would collect less data about them?*
- See less useful ads
- Pay for subscriptions
- Turn off Siri and Alexa
- Stop using genealogy sites like 23andme
What piece of personal information on a publicly available ancestry database led police to arrest the Golden State Killer?*
- An old DNA sample
- A detailed family tree
- A tip on a message board
- Metadata showing user location
Earlier this year, Amazon admitted that it had hired contractors to listen to and analyze voice commands to its Alexa device. Since then, news reports have revealed that which other company is listening to what users are saying to its devices?*
- Google
- Apple
- Microsoft
- All of the above
Your internet service provider (ISP) can see what websites you have visited even if you are using a web browser in ‘private’ mode.*
- True
- False
What city became the first in the U.S. to ban the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies?*
- Atlanta
- Chicago
- San Francisco
- New York

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