Government Collection of Private Information: Background and Issues Related to the USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
Author: Anna C. Henning
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 1437981259
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The Right to Privacy
Author: Samuel D. Brandeis, Louis D. Warren
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 3732645487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: The Right to Privacy by Samuel D. Warren, Louis D. Brandeis
The Patriot Act
Author: Lauri S. Friedman
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780737735253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines six controversial essays that debate the issue of the Patriot Act, and includes model essays, sidebar notes and guided exercises.
The NSA Report
Author: President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, The
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1400851270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance "We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials."—The NSA Report This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report examines the extent of NSA programs and calls for dozens of urgent and practical reforms. The result is a blueprint showing how the government can reaffirm its commitment to privacy and civil liberties—without compromising national security.
The War On Our Freedoms
Author: Richard C Leone
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2008-08-06
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0786725540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn each generation, for different reasons, America witnesses a tug of war between the instinct to suppress and the instinct for openness. Today, with the perception of a mortal threat from terrorists, the instinct to suppress is in the ascendancy. Part of the reason for this is the trauma that our country experienced on September 11, 2001, and part of the reason is that the people who are in charge of our government are inclined to use the suppression of information as a management strategy. Rather than waiting ten or fifteen years to point out what's wrong with the current rush to limit civil liberties in the name of "national security," these essays by top thinkers, scholars, journalists, and historians lift the veil on what is happening and why the implications are dangerous and disturbing and ultimately destructive of American values and ideals. Without our even being aware, the judiciary is being undermined, the press is being intimidated, racial profiling is rampant, and our privacy is being invaded. The "war on our freedoms " is just as real as the "war on terror " -- and, in the end, just as dangerous.
Government Collection of Private Information
Author: Edward C. Liu
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report discusses the legal background associated with the sunset of various provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and of subsequent related legislation.
Terrorist Material Support
Author: Charles Doyle
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 143793742X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are 2 fed. material support statutes have been at the heart of the Justice Dept¿s. terrorist prosecution efforts. One provision outlaws providing material support for the commission of certain designated offenses that might be committed by terrorists. The other outlaws providing material support to certain terrorist org. They share a common definition of the term ¿material support,¿ some aspects of which have come under constitutional attack. Contents of this report: (1) Introduction; (2) Background; (3) Support of Designated Terrorist Org.: Attempt, Conspiracy, Aiding and Abetting; Material Support; Other Constitutional Challenges; Terrorist Org.; Consequences of Charge or Conviction; Extraterritorial Jurisdiction; Civil Actions; (4) Support of Terrorism.
Government Collection of Private Information
Author: Anna C. Henning
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2010-10
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 1437927459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCongress enacted the USA PATRIOT Act soon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The most controversial sections of the Act facilitate the federal government¿s collection of more info. from a greater number of sources than had previously been authorized in criminal or foreign intelligence investigations. With the changes came greater access to records showing an individual¿s spending and commun. patterns as well as increased authority to intercept e-mail and telephone conversations and to search homes and businesses. The impending expiration date has prompted legislative proposals which revisit changes made by the USA PATRIOT Act and related measures. This report surveys the legal environment in which the legislative proposals arise.
Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007-06-28
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0309134005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrivacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger consumer worries. Online practices of business and government agencies may present new ways to compromise privacy, and e-commerce and technologies that make a wide range of personal information available to anyone with a Web browser only begin to hint at the possibilities for inappropriate or unwarranted intrusion into our personal lives. Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of privacy in the information age. It explores such important concepts as how the threats to privacy evolving, how can privacy be protected and how society can balance the interests of individuals, businesses and government in ways that promote privacy reasonably and effectively? This book seeks to raise awareness of the web of connectedness among the actions one takes and the privacy policies that are enacted, and provides a variety of tools and concepts with which debates over privacy can be more fruitfully engaged. Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age focuses on three major components affecting notions, perceptions, and expectations of privacy: technological change, societal shifts, and circumstantial discontinuities. This book will be of special interest to anyone interested in understanding why privacy issues are often so intractable.
Government Collection of Private Information: Background and Issues Related to the USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 31
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCongress enacted the USA PATRIOT Act soon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The most controversial sections of the Act facilitate the federal government's collection of more information, from a greater number of sources, than had previously been authorized in criminal or foreign intelligence investigations. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), and the national security letter (NSL) statutes were all bolstered. With the changes came greater access to records showing an individual's spending and communication patterns as well as increased authority to intercept e-mail and telephone conversations and to search homes and businesses. In some cases, evidentiary standards required to obtain court approval for the collection of information were lowered. Other approaches included expanding the scope of information subject to search, adding flexibility to the methods by which information could be collected, and broadening the purposes for which information may be sought. Some perceived the changes as necessary to unearth terrorist cells and update investigative authorities to respond to the new technologies and characteristics of ever-shifting threats. Others argued that authorities granted by the USA PATRIOT Act and subsequent measures could unnecessarily undermine constitutional rights over time. In response to such concerns, sunset provisions were established for many of the changes.
