This new law will only point us in a direction of a communist country. ... The slightest possibility of discrimination and loss of privacy should have told the lawmakers in this country that this was wrong. Discrimination is the worst thing to come out of this law. ... This new law takes that right away just on stupid suspicions. ... Another basis for this law to be recalled is lack of privacy. ...
Indeed, government's enforcement of a systematic set of laws and rights can be accomplished. ... History has proven us many times how alterations to the law works towards human equality. The government definitely has a lot more work to be done regarding revision of laws, the inadequacy of rights to privacy; a basic human right is one such example. ... In most areas of the U.S, privacy is protected as a common law, not a constitutional right. ... A common law can vary from state to state but one constitution rules the land, so when the case comes with the right to privacy under the commo...
President Bush signed it into law on October 26, 2001, after it received little congressional review or debate. Giving almost unlimited anti-privacy powers to domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies, PATRIOT virtually eliminates checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that those powers were not abused. ... The 4th Amendment defends an individual's rights to privacy against unlawful tactics such as those in the Patriot Act. ... Pertaining to surveillance and an individual's right to privacy, Section 312 gives immunity to law ...
Two arguments that people are most passionate and vocal about are closely related, invasion of privacy and freedom of speech. ... Critics have a problem with the provision in the law in which it gives intelligence and law enforcement agencies more power to investigate. ... Besides violating well-established rights of privacy the law also threatens freedom of speech because people may choose not to read about certain topics on the internet or look at certain books in the fear of being watched by the government. ... ", upon signing the law. ... Nearly a year later more people were protesting tha...
President Bush signed it into law on October 26, 2001, after it received little congressional review or debate. Giving almost unlimited anti-privacy powers to domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies, PATRIOT virtually eliminates checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that those powers were not abused. ... The 4th Amendment defends an individual's rights to privacy against unlawful tactics such as those in the Patriot Act. ... Pertaining to surveillance and an individual's right to privacy, Section 312 gives immunity to law ...
The need for such a proactive law is obvious because in this democratic government the people affect policy. The public opinion is clearly seen when the Senate passed this law 98-1 and the House had a clear majority with a 357-66 vote. The investment in government in a time of crisis is fundamental in understanding how a democratic government can pass a law that grants such discretion and infringes on the rights of its citizens (right to privacy). ... The biggest concern for those who oppose this law is that the government has discretion. ... It is important to understand that this law w...
The privacy issues over the use of the Internet have been critical since there were an ongoing news reports in the international media revealing operational details about the U.S. ... Alternatively, the NSA broke federal privacy laws, or exceeded its authority (Gellman 2013). ... His disclosures have fueled debated over mass surveillance, government secrecy, and the balance between national security and information privacy. ...
The Fourteenth Amendment states, "The Statecannot deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within itsjurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." ... JosephDavis, brought in from Seminole County, "found that Florida's strict privacy law and the equal protection clause in theU.S. ... "Renewed effortsat the Legislative level to overturn "Measure 16" may now be anticipated to prevent the law from being used"(http://www.rights.org/deathnet/open. ... The Fourteenth Amendment gives one the right to life, liberty, or property, witho...
Overall, personal freedom should make more sense to people as our privacy is being invaded every step the people take. ... The government is going beyond the law in order to "protect" the people from terrorists when all along they are just stalking their own people. ...
In 1986 the government passed a law called the federal computer fraud and abuse act which meant a felony got put you behind bars for five years (Slatalla). ... It will also neglect the law that states that everyone has a fair trial. ... This will bring the necessity of creating a new set of rules or laws that would put different hackers on different levels and tried accordingly. ... Sure creating a team of workers to hunt for terrorist activity could be productive, but it still pushes aside privacy acts and protection. ... CyberLaw : the Law of the Internet (November 1996) Slatalla, Michell...
Therefore, I feel there is enough evidence to make a case of discrimination against prostitution laws. ... Arrests of prostitutes include the use of entrapment, invasion of privacy, and the use of discriminatory laws or tactics. In these cases the police are stretching the law to arrest prostitutes. ... Nevada state law permits each country the opinion to establish houses of prostitution. ...
The European Union laws are now stating that every pack of cigarettes has to carry a label written in black and white saying, "smoking kills" (The anti-smoking trend). ... Smokers believe that it is an invasion of privacy when the government tells them where they can smoke. ... Will these laws help stop people from smoking as much? These types of laws seem to be working in Europe, so who is to say that it will not work here? These are some questions that can be answered with these new laws. ...
In George Orwell's novel 1984 the Party of Oceania is able to control several things that we may think impossible to control. The party controls the people of Oceania psychologically and physically. Controlling not only the people, the Party also controls every source of information, operating and r...
