Caly Children’s Hospital in San Francisco, California, outsourced the storage of patients’ personal information to a third-party vendor SecureMed. Hackers accessed SecureMed’s cloud storage, exfiltrated the personal information of Caly’s patients, and then encrypted the information left on SecureMed’s servers. Hackers then requested a ransom from SecureMed related to the Caly data. SecureMed paid the ransom, but the patients’ personal information was not returned. The patients sued Caly Children’s Hospital. Are the patients likely to be successful in their lawsuit against the hospital?

NextDoor Neighbor Mortgage, a mortgage lender, collects private financial data on its customers as part of its routine business practices. In 2019, the email account of Don Irvine, an employee of the company, was accessed by an unauthorized person. That unauthorized person potentially gained access to a significant amount of sensitive personal data related to mortgage loan applications. When Don reported this incident to his supervisor, Don explained that he did not know whether the personal data was encrypted at the time of the incident. No investigation was conducted in 2019. In 2021, mortgage regulators learned of the incident and initiated an investigation. As the new Privacy Officer for NextDoor Neighbor Mortgage, the CEO has asked you what steps NextDoor Neighbor Mortgage should have taken in 2019 in response to the email incident. What do you advise the CEO?

Rocky Rocker, a well-known musical performer, checks into the Los Angeles Drug Treatment Resort (LADTR) on July 1. Within a week of his stay at this drug treatment program, videotapes of Rocky on the grounds of LADTR have been posted on social media by paparazzi. These posts prompt Chris Columbo, a local police detective, to visit the president of LADTR. Detective Chris is investigating a vehicle wreck where Rocky was the driver. Rocky is accused of being under the influence of illegal drugs at the time of the wreck. This wreck occurred in Los Angeles on June 30. Detective Chris believes that the LADTR will have the results of medical tests that will establish that Rocky was under the influence of illegal drugs at the time of his admission to LADTR, which was shortly after the vehicle wreck. Is it likely that Detective Chris will be able to obtain Rocky’s records that are held by LADTR?

A children’s flipbook consists of a series of pictures of Mickey Mouse with his feet in slightly different positions. If you look at the pages one at a time, slowly, all you see are the individual pictures of Mickey. However, if you flip the pages quickly, you see Mickey running. This illusion is due to storage of the successive pictures in:

Harlow did an experiment with infant rhesus monkeys, requiring them to make a choice between an imitation mother that provided contact comfort or one that provided food. The results demonstrate that for this species:

Multiply the decimals.  

Ian, age 2, was watching his father hammer a nail. His father hit his own thumb and then used several expletives. As his father went in the house for a Band-Aid, Ian went over to the nail, picked up the hammer, pretended to hit his finger and repeated the expletives. This scenario is an example of what kind of learning?

Tara is consistently a good student, organized, self-disciplined, and very careful about turning her work in on time. According to the Big Five factor model of personality, Tara would likely score high on:

The extensions of a neuron that receive messages from other neurons are the:

Simplify the fraction.