The NSA Report
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

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The 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.

New England Law Review: Volume 48, Number 1 - Fall 2013
New England Law Review: Volume 48, Number 1 - Fall 2013

Author: New England Law Review

Publisher: Quid Pro Books

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1610278607

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The New England Law Review now offers its issues in convenient and modern ebook formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This first issue of Volume 48, Fall 2013, was published in 2014 and contains articles and presentations from leading figures of the academy, the judiciary, and the legal community. Contents of this issue include: • Commencement Address at New England Law: Boston, May 24, 2013, by U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz Articles: • Creamskimming and Competition, by Jim Chen • "Give Me That Old Time Religion": The Persistence of the Webster Reasonable Doubt Instruction and the Need to Abandon It, by Hon. Richard E. Welch, III • Standing Up to Clapper: How to Increase Transparency and Oversight of FISA Surveillance, by Alan Butler Notes: • Avoiding Unintended House Boats: Towards Sensible Coastal Land Use Policy in Massachusetts, by Keith Richard • The Moral Judiciary: Restoring Morality as a Basis of Judicial Decision-Making, by Erik Hagen • Tales of the Dead: Why Autopsy Reports Should Be Classified as Testimonial Statements Under the Confrontation Clause, by Andrew Higley Comments: • Putting Beer Goggles on the Jury: Rape, Intoxication, and the Reasonable Man in Commonwealth v. Mountry, by Annalise H. Scobey • A Government of the People, by the People, for Whom? How In re Enforcement of a Subpoena Ensures that the Judiciary Is Unaccountable, by Lindsay Bohan

Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age
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

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Privacy 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.

The Right to Privacy
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

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Reproduction of the original: The Right to Privacy by Samuel D. Warren, Louis D. Brandeis

Yale Law Journal: Volume 124, Number 5 - March 2015
Yale Law Journal: Volume 124, Number 5 - March 2015

Author: Yale Law Journal

Publisher: Quid Pro Books

Published: 2015-04-02

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1610278364

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The contents of the March 2015 issue (Volume 124, Number 5) are: Articles: • “Article III Judicial Power, the Adverse-Party Requirement, and Non-Contentious Jurisdiction” by James E. Pfander & Daniel D. Birk • “Beyond Diversification: The Pervasive Problem of Excessive Fees and 'Dominated Funds' in 401(k) Plans” by Ian Ayres & Quinn Curtis • “The Uneasy Case for Favoring Long-Term Shareholders” by Jesse M. Fried • “Deviance, Aspiration, and the Stories We Tell: Reconciling Mass Atrocity and the Criminal Law” by Saira Mohamed Notes: • “Mitigating Jurors’ Racial Biases: The Effects of Content and Timing of Jury Instructions” by Elizabeth Ingriselli • “How To Eat an Elephant: Corporate Group Structure of Systemically Important Financial Institutions, Orderly Liquidation Authority, and Single Point of Entry Resolution” by Kwon-Yong Jin • “Public Actors, Private Law: Local Governments’ Use of Covenants To Regulate Land Use” by Noah M. Kazis Comment: • “Methodological Stare Decisis and Intersystemic Statutory Interpretation in the Choice-of-Law Context” by Grace E. Hart Quality ebook formatting includes fully linked footnotes and an active Table of Contents (including linked Contents for all individual Articles, Notes, and Essays), proper Bluebook formatting, and active URLs in footnotes.

The Cost of Counterterrorism
The Cost of Counterterrorism

Author: Laura K. Donohue

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-04-14

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1139469576

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In the aftermath of a terrorist attack political stakes are high: legislators fear being seen as lenient or indifferent and often grant the executive broader authorities without thorough debate. The judiciary's role, too, is restricted: constitutional structure and cultural norms narrow the courts' ability to check the executive at all but the margins. The dominant 'Security or Freedom' framework for evaluating counterterrorist law thus fails to capture an important characteristic: increased executive power that shifts the balance between branches of government. This book re-calculates the cost of counterterrorist law to the United Kingdom and the United States, arguing that the damage caused is significantly greater than first appears. Donohue warns that the proliferation of biological and nuclear materials, together with willingness on the part of extremists to sacrifice themselves, may drive each country to take increasingly drastic measures with a resultant shift in the basic structure of both states.

Justice and security green paper
Justice and security green paper

Author: Great Britain: Ministry of Justice

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2011-10-19

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780101819428

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In safeguarding national security the Government produces and receives sensitive information. This information must be protected appropriately, as failure to do so may compromise investigations, endanger lives and ultimately lessen its ability to keep the country safe. The increased security and intelligence activity of recent years has led to greater scrutiny including in the civil courts, which have heard a growing numbers of cases challenging Government decisions and actions in the national security sphere. Such cases involve information that under current rules cannot be disclosed in a courtroom. The UK justice system is then either unable to pass judgment and cases collapse or are settled without a judge reaching any conclusions. This green paper aims to respond to the challenges of how sensitive information is treated in the full range of civil proceedings. It looks for solutions that improve the current arrangements while upholding the Government's commitment to the rule of law. It also addresses the need for public reassurance that the national security work is robustly scrutinised, and that the scrutinising bodies are credible and effective. The proposals in this consultation are in three broad areas: enhancing procedural fairness, safeguarding material and reform of intelligence oversight.

Political Terrorism
Political Terrorism

Author: Alex Peter Schmid

Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland Publishing Company ; New Brunswick (USA) : Transaction Books, distributors for the Western Hemisphere

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 9780444856593

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While there is no easy way to define terrorism, it may generally be viewed as a method of violence in which civilians are targeted with the objective of forcing a perceived enemy into submission by creating fear, demoralization, and political friction in the population under attack. At one time a marginal field of study in the social sciences, terrorism is now very much in center stage. The 1970s terrorist attacks by the PLO, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Japanese Red Army, the Unabomber, Aum Shinrikyo, Timothy McVeigh, the World Trade Center attacks, the assault on a school in Russia, and suicide bombers have all made the term "terrorism" an all-too-common part of our vocabulary. This edition was originally published in the 1980s, well before some of the horrific events noted above. This monumental collection of definitions, conceptual frameworks, paradigmatic formulations, and bibliographic sources is being reissued in paperback now as a resource for the expanding community of researchers on the subject of terrorism. This is a carefully constructed guide to one of the most urgent issues of the world today.