... come time when the actions of law enforcement agencies aren't only protecting the public, they are overstepping their boundaries and intruding into people's private lives. This article is going to help you understand what wiretaps are and how they can affect you. It discusses the laws involved ... are also issues to be discussed in this article. I feel that law enforcement agencies have indeed overstepped their boundaries and delved into the private lives of America's citizens, and that new legislation could even aid to the problem and make it even bigger than it already is. ... (Edwar...

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... . This has left the population a bit unnerved at the thought of information going around, with no real explanation of the need or use of sensitive, private, and personal information. According to their website, the NSA states that they do not store personal information and they do not go through all the information that they have access to (National Security Agency, website accessed 10/01 ... the privacy of its own people and on an international scale for reasons that are unknown to us, despite their frequent assurance that the information would not be utilized for anything at all. Their ...

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... place from being watched or observed is away from all technology. Why should both the FBI and CIA be granted the privilege to undermine any internet site to access our private information? If nothing is done they eventually will monitor the entire internet and phone devices. They recently backed up their intention to do so by demanding encryption files from Blackberry and ... demanding Google to release them any documents they desire from their warehouse. We thought they already held superior control over us but apparently not. Taking information from the internet proved not enough for ...

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... resulting in terrorist activity. Violent Islamist extremists have become skilled at using the Internet to spread their propaganda. Certainly, the Internet has provided billions of people with access to information, and social media has played a critical role in the spread of the Islamic extremist movement. Violent Islamist extremists originally used password-protected forums, but they are now on ... an anonymous method for like-minded, conflicted individuals to meet, form virtual relationships, and discuss their radical and extremist beliefs. The virtual network created in message boar...

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... use of incident reports, logs and narrative-only reports is commonplace in a number of public and private sectors, including law enforcement and health care where they are used to codify different types of events ... incident reports from direct service staff to supervisors and administrators, facilitates timely clinical oversight and risk management and ensures the security of clients' protected health information" (Brenner & Freundlich, 2006, p. 612). In fact, most authorities agree that computer-based tracking is the only truly effective method of ... regard, Berntsen (2004) reports...

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... computer crime problem, public reports have estimated that computer crime costs us between five hundred million and ten billion dollars per year. The Computer Security Institute has surveyed 428 information security specialists in Fortune 500 companies; 42% of the respondents indicated that there was an unauthorized use of their computer systems in the last year. Only a small portion ... youth development programs; runs pathbreaking demonstration programs such as the 10-city Community Responses to Drug Abuse and the seven-city Texas City Action Plan To Prevent Crime; disseminates informa...

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... that mirrored the Senate version. Neither discussion nor amendments were permitted in consideration of this bill. The new law hits on every space that Americans once imagined was personal or private. United States authorities can browse medical, financial, educational and library records without showing evidence of a crime ever being committed. The Patriot Act also overrides the existing state and federal ... privacy laws, so long as the FBI claims the information is connected to an intelligence investigation. It appears that there are two clear sides to this issue. First, is that as an...

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... intelligence between security agencies (Larry and Godoy 2006). This provision was the base at which the Act seeks to eliminate the hurdles that stopped government agencies from sharing information obtained from criminal investigation and questioning. These hurdles were blamed for the poor job the security apparatus did in detaining the September 11th suspects. Investigation into the terrorist ... attacks indicated that different government agencies had different incoherent information, that when combined would have made meaningful intelligence. The Center for American Progress, in its r...

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... investigations into areas with delicate political situations. This is absolutely necessary because both organizations have failed at one point or another to adequately share, pursue more of, or act on information they possessed. For example, two years before the terrorist attacks of September eleventh, a report was issued to the Clinton administration cautioning the possibility that Bin Laden and his followers ... possible involvement with terrorism is unclear. Along with senior officials stamping out important investigations, the CIA and FBI failed to both appropriately investigate in...

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... to give up due to system performance and profitability concerns. The government, however, felt that this data was essential and thus made laws forcing companies to disclose any requested information. The government compensated the corporations for this by granting them unprecedented immunity from the civil consequences of violating the nation's securities, tax, civil rights, environmental, labor, consumer ... protection, and health and safety laws. The result is that companies with something to hide will race to voluntarily disclose information about potential violations to the governmen...

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... losses because of computer breaches. Forty-four percent of these (223 respondents) had been damaged for a total of $455,848,000 in financial losses. Most occurred through theft of information including 26 respondents reporting $170,827,000 and 25 respondents reporting $115,753,000 in financial fraud. The Internet connection was the most noted point of attack with seventy-four ... is up from only sixteen percent in 1996. CSI Director Patrice Rapalus remarked that technology by itself cannot stop cyber attacks and there needs to be more cooperation between the private sector and the govern...

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... authorities. The first amendment has "generally guaranteed" the readers confidentiality when they check books out from a public library. The New Jersey Confidentiality Statute "keeps library users" information secret unless a subpoena or court order is produced;" however, since the USA Patriot Act was passed many "librarians have become concerned that their municipal attorneys may be ill ... Patriot Act is to "target various monetary transactions and electronic communications that may reflect terrorist activities." Furthermore, the USA Patriot Act influences financial institutions to "ob...

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... Act provides the government with the authority to prosecute individuals especially those who sympathize with 'terrorist' groups" (Masci). In addition, expanded government surveillance allows the FBI to demand information from third parties. This is a violation of the third parties" rights, because they are forbidden from revealing that this has occurred (ACLU). The Patriot Act gives government agencies ... guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment secures people from unreasonable search and seizure without a warrant (US Constitution). This means that law enforcement cannot...

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... authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism, computer fraud and abuse offenses" and may if they find it necessary, have the "authority to share criminal investigative information" with anyone, including other regular American citizens, as outlined in Section 203. They may also record and confiscate all voice-mail messages (Sec. 209 "seizure of voice-mail messages ... the persons or things to be seized." This proves that the Patriot Act is clearly unconstitutional in that it gives authorities the power to invade and/or wiretap an individual's pri...

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... authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism, computer fraud and abuse offenses" and may if they find it necessary, have the "authority to share criminal investigative information" with anyone, including other regular American citizens, as outlined in Section 203. They may also record and confiscate all voice-mail messages (Sec. 209 "seizure of voice-mail messages ... the persons or things to be seized." This proves that the Patriot Act is clearly unconstitutional in that it gives authorities the power to invade and/or wiretap an individual's pri...

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... new liability protection of pharmaceutical companies for the vaccines they develop. Under the Patriot Act, Internet Service Providers are given the right to discloser to a "law enforcement agency" the private communications of a customer, if the company has any reasonably belief that an emergency involving immediate danger of a death or serious physical injury to any person. In situations such as ... this will require a disclosure of the information without delay. The new rule would modify the Patriot Act, and it will allow any discloser not only to public citizens but also to any feder...

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... rapidly worked together in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. As discussed in class and the textbook, this department was created to centralize and liberalize the flow of information sharing amongst agencies, allowing them to work productively together in the defense of our nation. Accordingly, it would only make sense to transfer FLETC into this department, to centralize and ... program, to ensure that FLETC is always up to date with current technology that could pose as both threats or defense. This office works close with the military, Universities, and private indu...

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... citizens who were said to be conspiring to provide support materials to both Al Queda and Hamas terrorists. Also, the FBI's domestic intelligence operations have been strengthened by the CIA's information sharing, helping the U.S. to capture the Al Queda "mastermind" of the September 11th attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ("Terrorist"). Some experts even believe that in the short time the act has ... prevents library staff or booksellers to inform their patrons if the FBI has asked for their reading list (Talanian). The freedom to read any book of interest or search for information on the...

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... American descent, along with Hispanics and Muslims. While these groups of individuals may feel they are being subjected to racism, law enforcement stand to believe it is a simple act of private security. Racial profiling groups a specific race as one, if there is a common misdemeanor conducted by a few, the group as a whole is assumed guilty. Racial profiling derives from a form of stereotyping ... , Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities (Rights Working Group website, n.d.). "It is commonly believed that African Americans are more likely than whites to be stopped by police, but corrob...

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... 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and its main point was to protect people from terrorism. Specifically, it allows FBI agents to search personal information of people, to read their emails, and listen to their private phone calls" (para 1). Before the Patriot Act, such acts were protected by the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution which require a warrant for the ... ...

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... citizens through fear and intimidation. • Manage a national drug intelligence program in cooperation with federal, state, local, and foreign officials to collect, analyze, and spread strategic and operational drug intelligence information. • Seizure and for feature of assets derived from, traceable to, or intended to be used for illicit drug trafficking. • Enforcement of the provisions of the Controlled Substances Act ... a daily challenge in protecting the country's borders. Each year, according to the United States Customs Service, 60 million people enter the United States on mo...

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... law enforcement to use surveillance against more crimes of terror allows federal agents to ask a court for an order to obtain business records in national security terrorism cases [and] facilitates information sharing and cooperation among government agencies so that they can better "connect the dots."" Many other, more severe privacy-defying measures are outlined in the pending Patriot Act part 2, a daunting ... Bush has since adopted a different approach. "In a three-point plan, Bush is seeking broad authority to allow federal agents- without the approval of a judge or even a federal ...

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... could be passed by Congress as early as this year, and how Trop v. Dulles continues to influence politics by calling into question this bill's constitutionality. In 1944, the petitioner was a private in the U.S. Army. On May 22, he escaped from Casablanca, where he was being detained for an unrelated breach of discipline. Military authorities arrested him less than a day later and ... represent a fundamental change from the constitutional framework of separation of powers of the branches of government, to delegating power to the Administration without oversight or accountability. It wou...

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