ZoomMe is a company that accumulates data on people from various sources such as online product registration forms, credit card purchases, and other public records. It then uses these data to create profiles on people and sell them to advertisers. ZoomMecomes under the category of _____.

a. data brokers
b. data miners
c. privacy analysts
d. privacy brokers


a. data brokers
Data brokers are companies that create profiles on people based on aggregated data from arrest records, business directories, phone directories, social media networks, Web sites, online product registration forms, credit card purchases, and other public records. Some data brokers have detailed profiles on tens of millions of consumers, which they then sell to each other, to advertisers, to the government, and even to individuals.

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Premium Airlines has recently offered to settle claims for a class-action suit, which was originated for alleged price fixing of tickets. The proposed settlement is stated as follows:

Initially, Premium Airlines will make available to the settlement class a main fund of $25 million in coupons. If the number of valid claims submitted is 1.25 million or fewer, the value of each claim will be the result obtained by dividing $25 million by the total number of valid claims submitted. For example, if there are 500,000 valid claims, each person submitting a valid claim will receive a coupon with a value of $50. The denomination of each coupon distributed will be in a whole dollar amount not to exceed $50. Thus, if there are fewer than 500,000 valid claims, the value of each claim will be divided among two coupons or more. For example, if there are 250,000 valid claims, each person submitting a valid claim will receive two coupons, each having a face value of $50, for a total coupon value of $100. If the number of valid claims submitted is between 1.25 and 1.5 million, Premium Airlines will make available a supplemental fund of coupons, with a potential value of $5 million. The supplemental fund will be made available to the extent necessary to provide one $20 coupon for each valid claim. If there are more than 1.5 million valid claims, the total amount of the main fund and the supplemental fund, $30 million, will be divided evenly to produce one coupon for each valid claim. The value of each such coupon will be $30 million divided by the total number of valid claims. Draw a decision tree for the Premium Airlines settlement.

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To open a file stored as a PDF, you need to have the companion viewing software.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Match the following tools with their uses

1. The most notable early hacking group a. Plovernet 2. One of the first hacking boards, popular on the West Coast b. Legion of Doom 3. East Coast hacking board that became a breeding ground for hacking groups c. ALTOS 4. The epitome of sophisticated international hacking, originally formed in Germany d. 414 Private 5. Group of teenage hackers who hacked into the Los Alamos military computers in the early 1980s e. 8BBS

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When your hard drive has to wait for the correct sector to spin to the read/write head, the delay is known as ________.

A. read time B. access time C. seek time D. latency

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