...that terrorism is a very current issue. After 9/11, the Patriot Act was put in to place trying to help secure the protection of Americans. In years following the start of the Patriot Act, people began claiming it as an invasion of privacy and individual rights. With the news of the Paris terrorist attack, which ISIS has claimed as their own, people and governments around the world are nervous about what the future holds. The focus on the precautions and laws that will continue to invade our privacy as terrorism continues around the world will be better understood by looking at past terrorist attacks. Comparing the recent acts of terrorism and...
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...Chummere Yarbro February 14, 2013 HSI-170 A month in a half after 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States, the USA Patriot Act passed Congress, it's also known as the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” Act, or more simply, the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was created with the noble intention of finding and prosecuting international terrorists operating on American soil; however, the unfortunate consequences of the Act have been drastic. Many of the Patriot Act’s provisions are in clear violation of the U.S constitution, and that’s why I am against the USA Patriot Act. The Patriot Act basically gives almost unlimited anti- privacy powers to domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies. Privacy Invasions are one of the down falls of the Patriot Act. USAPA II dramatically widens the powers of government to invade the privacy of Americans and others living here. This includes, broad new authority to compel information from ISPs, friends, relatives, businesses and others, all without informing you. Immunity for businesses that voluntarily turn over your information to law enforcement. Extra punishment for use of cryptography no connection to terrorism needed. Instant police access to your credit reports upon certification that they are sought "in connection with their duties", again with no connection to terrorism needed. Relaxed requirement of specificity for warrants for multi-use...
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... Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. You may think your United States employee rights authorize you to have a privacy workplace. People are wrong because, according to workplace privacy studies, the odds were good that your employer was monitoring all your internet actions, including your web pages and chat rooms (Niznik, 2011). If your company policy does not state there is a workplace privacy policy, your employer may watch, listen, and read just about everything in workplace area. Employers have the right to protect their business, their finances, and all of their equipment. The American Management Association (AMA) conducted a study of 526 employers which most use some type of electronic surveillance of the employees (Niznik, 2011). Many employers will deny they use any type of electronic surveillance however; the odds are good that your employer has “the eye,” watching your every move at work. Employers are not required to provide workplace privacy because your employers own everything you use at work. Your employers own the computers you work on, the telephones you talk on and the buildings in which you work. There are only a few weak employee workplace privacy right laws that exist. Since there are so few workplace privacy laws, it is legal for “the eye” to spy on you without your consent or your awareness. The only time an employee should have privacy at work is when they are changing their clothes or using the bathroom...
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...founded on the principle of freedom for each and every individual. Freedom and privacy can often be used synonymously. Originally, America was set up with the design to ensure the security of privacy for every citizen. In 2001 the two concepts of freedom and security diverged and each suddenly became opposed to the other in the form of the Patriot Act. A terrorist attack on the Twin Towers resulted in the deaths of thousands of people. This tragedy caused fast reactions that were not necessarily thought through, such as the Patriot Act in an attempt to combat the issue of terrorism. The Patriot Act gives the government to power to survey every phone call, the content, length, and date. It was intended for the interception...
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...government has access to (ACLU). Every single day, people’s privacy is invaded. People unknowingly give up part of their privacy in order...
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...Axia College Material Appendix B The USA PATRIOT ACT Provisions Table Use the table below to organize information about the USA PATRIOT ACT. From the Electronic Reserve Reading article Update: USA Patriot Act, identify and classify characteristics of PATRIOT ACT provisions. Describe how each provision either poses potential risks to civil liberties, aids the War on Terror, or possibly both. While completing the table, consider what each provision means to you on a personal level. For example, Section 218 makes it easier for federal agents to open a criminal case on you or other citizens, should there be significant purpose to do so; yet, the same provision makes it easier for federal agents to gather information on a terrorist, and possibly prevent that terrorist from committing future crimes. |Provision |Risks to Civil Liberties |Aids the War on Terror | |Section 218 |Allows agents to obtain FISA warrants, requiring less |This provision makes it easier for agents to open a | | |evidence of wrongdoing, which can be subject to abuse |criminal case on terrorists, possibly preventing that | | |in domestic criminal cases. Only a significant |terrorist from committing future crimes. Reduces | | |investigative purpose is required to obtain a FISA |barriers between intelligence work and criminal | | ...
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...U.S.A. Patriot ACT (Traylyn Redman) September the 11th 200l is a day that we all know well and remember for the rest of our lives. It is a day that will down in U.S. history as one of the most historic and tragic events in our history. One response enlighten of these events that was put in place was the USA PATRIOT ACT. The reason why the USA PARTIOT ACT was signed is mainly because of poor intelligence that the U.S. has had prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In addition to have a plan and reanalyze our intelligence we can make sure this attack would never happen again on American soil. The patriot act is a critical and historical event in itself. The act was put into place very quickly after 9/11. The government and President Bush had seen the U.S. as a whole was a strong country but still had weaknesses and were vulnerable to attacks without taking swift action. The act was signed on October 26, 2001, just one month after the 9/11 attacks. The patriot act was put in place for many reasons and has been a benefit and various ways. There has still been criticism and skepticism of the act in just the short term of the act being signed. The act of information sharing is one factor that the critics argue. The critics argument that this information would get into the wrong hands or be used by other agencies for unrelated or wrong reasons. The act would permit wiretaps on terrorist or even any potential terror threat over more than one jurisdiction. This would make sense...
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...The USA Patriot Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2001 to address the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The general rationale of the Patriot Act is to streamline communications between the different agencies that work together while investigating terrorist activity. The heart of the Patriot Act has American safety at its core and the American people did not have much to say against the act at first. However, as time wore on and people felt distance to the horrific and shocking attack on the country, they began to question the heightened surveillance and seeming lack of accountability for the invasion of privacy that is against the basic principles of freedom advocated by the United States Constitution. The underlying...
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...U.S. Patriot Act Damian Coles AJS/552 June 14, 2012 Drew Christensen U.S. Patriot Act A discussion will be made to consider the advantages, and disadvantages of making the USA Patriot Act otherwise known as the patriot act a mandatory statue. As of now some of the patriot act has expired while other parts have been voted on and extended. To fully grasp why or why not the patriot act should become a permanent statue in American law. In order to fully understand the patriot act the reason for its existence and definition of what it is must be understood. It came into place after the horrific actions of a terrorist group on September 11, 2001. On that day countless amounts of Americans lives would be changed forever. Terrorist apprehended and attempted to crash planes into high value targets all at the same time. They were successful with one of the attacks being thwarted by the inhabitants of the airplane. It was an attack spearheaded by the terrorist organization Al Qaeda. The leader at the time of the attacks was an Osama Bin Laden, and he ordered the attacks. After these attacks on American soil the people and the government wanted affirmative action to be taken. The perpetrators of this heinous crime needed to be apprehended and an attack like this needs to be avoided. So the patriot act was created by congress and signed by former President George W. Bush and made a law on October 26, 2001. The law was unanimously voted into action by the House of Representatives...
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...attacks on that day shook the nation and led to many important events in the following decade, such as the invasion of Afghanistan, the liberation of Iraq from the hands of Saddam Hussein, and an overhaul of our national security. Americans felt unsafe as a result of 2000-plus civilians who perished that day, and demanded something be done to root out the terrorists and foil the plots before any more damage could be done. This led to the creation of the PATRIOT Act, a bill of great controversy 14 years after its inception. Whether the bill itself had a positive or negative impact on the country is still a topic of great debate to this day. The PATRIOT Act enabled the government to conduct roving wiretaps, search business records for immigrants marked as a suspect for terrorism, and removed many legal...
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...Individual Privacy vs. National Security Anthony Sifuentes ENG 122 English Composition II Instructor vonFrohling February 13, 2012 Individual Privacy vs. National Security The need to protect National Security is far more important than individual privacy. The greatest part of living in the United States of America is the freedom that we have. That freedom and the right to live freely is protected by various government agencies. From time to time, the privacy a person has may have to be invaded to guarantee the security of the country and other citizens. Everyone has the right to not have their life controlled by the government, but it has the right to make sure that citizens are not doing anything to threaten the security of the country. Our freedom also comes at a price; that price is the need of the government to monitor some of the things we do so ensure that the United States is not in danger of a terrorist attack or an attempted overthrow of the government. The most glaring example of how National Security is more important than the privacy of an individual is September 11, 2001. The terrorist attacks that day have changed how Americans see our National Security and it must take precedence over anything else. One definition found for national security is: “The measures taken by the state to ensure the security of itself, or its citizens or subjects.” (Thomas, 2007) He goes on to explain that is both a right and a responsibility for a state to protect its...
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...THE USA PATRIOT ACT--GOOD OR EVIL? Abstract Terrorism has been around in one form or another since long before September 11th 2001. It is our extreme reaction to the real threat of a terrorist attack began 9/11/2001. Although the odds of dying from a terrorist attack in America are extremely remote, after the attacks of 9/11/2001 and the overwhelming show of concern by American citizens, Congress hastily put together a bill outlining the workings of the U.S. Patriot Act. The United States Patriot Act of 2001 was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2001. President Barack Obama signed the Patriot Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, which created a 4 year extension of 3 key parts of the Patriot Act. Warrantless searches of business records, roving wiretaps, & conducting surveillance of individuals suspected of terrorist-related activities not linked to any specific organized terrorist groups. The Patriot Act dramatically reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search all records, documents, histories, etc., without the restraints of the normal operations of judicial law which most citizens assume will always protect them. The National and State Governments and their agencies work together to implement the Patriot Act with as minimal an “obvious” intrusion as possible into ours, the American citizens lives. It is obvious the security must be there, but with a minimal amount of perceived disruption to constitutionally given freedoms and rights. US...
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...monitor the actions and performance of their employees. This is due to worries about; quality of work, productivity employee theft or misuse of company property One of the main ethical issues of the workplace is employee privacy and surveillance. Argument raised is: is it ethical to monitor employees whilst they are in the workplace? Is there privacy for employees and should employees expect Privacy at workplace? Technology has offered various options to help people maintain privacy depending on their situation. At the same time, technology has made it almost impossible for anyone to have privacy. There are devices and programs that can help you get privacy but they can also be used to invade it. Modern society has too many incidences and events that include invasion of privacy, including on national and international levels. Is it possible to ever maintain a level of privacy when you are on the computer, your cellphone, or even in your own home due to technology advancements? In this writing the prominent examples of surveillance at work that I would like to discuss about are surveillance cameras and internet surveillance. Since this topic is based around privacy in the workplace, "privacy" is a key term to be explored. I will analyze the definition of “Privacy” term as well as the reality of using Surveillance today to illustrate for my opinion on this...
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...The Patriot Act Philosophers have helped us understand the establishment of governments and the authority of state over the individual. In this world there needs to be rules established and certain freedoms giving up for the exchange for protection and security. This is known as the social contract theory, which was originally founded by Plato. But such ideas has been expanded and taken one step further by many philosophers. This idea of a social contract is one of our most essential foundations of our American political system. The debate of how much of our liberties needs to be taken away to ensure our security has been a long lasting one. One of our most iconic founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, said, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” When we give governments power, they will use them for their own self-interest and when needed for their preservation. In the last decades there have been many technologic advances and our government need to adapt to these changes. The Patriot Act was but into law because our congress believed it was the right course of action to protect our nation’s security. Nonetheless, The Patriot Act undermines one of our most fundamental civil liberties and questions the integrity of our American democracy. Six weeks after September 11, 2001 congress passed a new law named, The Patriot Act (The Uniting and Strengthening America by Proving Appropriate Tools Required...
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...concerned that not abiding by the Constitution will eventually lead the demise of civil liberties. Some even consider this worse than terrorism itself. Even though , as history proves, our government has underestimated our nations security. The United States is in much greater jeopardy from international terrorists that previously believed. We also have to be concerned about terrorists living on our own soil. In the wake of 911, the government signed a law in 2001 called the USA Patriot Act, citing the need for more participation on all levels of security. Law enforcement was given a wider preemptive authority and encouraged to share information. The law was passed with one goal in mind; a safer America. Over the years, some Americans have become concerned that law enforcement restrictions were too invasive, that wire tapings and extensive surveillance was too much of an invasion of civil liberties. Many argued that the Patriot Act affects all citizens personal freedoms and privacy. The government argues that only suspected terrorists are affected by the law. As arguments flare about the proper balance between civil liberties and national security, a recent survey of terror cases show that surveillance such as intercepted communications and the monitoring of e-mail have often provided investigators with vital clues. According to court documents and other testimony resulted in at least half dozen major terror plot have been thwarted. Somehow a balance needs...
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