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While many find government surveillance techniques violating of civil rights, others stand for the personal and national security it provides in efforts to hinder tragedies. In response to the 9/11 terrorist attack, Congress quickly passed the USA Patriot Act to enhance government surveillance and deter terrorist activity. The Patriot Act targeted foreign communications and domestic cellular data recipients. Arguments arose concerning the domestic surveillance segment of this act, ultimately…

Friday on two counts of sexual solicitation of a child under 18 and one count of providing obscene material to a person under 18. The federal complaint stated, “Moore often engaged in online chats while on duty, once asking the undercover officer to send him something “exciting” one day when he was checking IDs for building entrance and complained that 'work sucks'”(Federal Complaint). He really wasn't paying attention to the real job at hand; all he was focused on was having communication with…

is on the internet, it will always be there. Source two states that "It violates the privacy of millions of innocent people" (source 2). This act has positively effected "terrorism laws, removed obstacles to investigating terrorism, enhanced the federal governments capacity, and has helped update the law" (source 3). The patriot act was been extremely beneficial and there are still complaints of privacy being invaded. There are numerous other ways to communicate with people, one can personally…

After the FCC’s decision to repeal net neutrality in 2017, many people began to take notice of these laws, which had previously been ignored for a good 2 years. Net neutrality was brought about in 2015, after many years of failed attempts trying to set these rules in place. Net neutrality laws, according to the “International Business Times,” were able to prevent ISPs from “slowing or throttling a user’s connection,” making sure users get the connection speeds they paid for without any regard…

In 2005 Antoine Jones was arrested for drug possession. The police had been able to follow Mr. Jones by attaching a tracking device to the bottom of his car, which they did receive a warrant to do, but only for 10 days and only in DC. The police installed the tracker on the 11th day when the warrant had expired. This device was always on and tracked him for a month. He was convicted, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stated in the 1983 case were a beeper was used to follow a car…

A normal day can turn into a tragedy and change millions of lives forever. That one day for Muslim across the United States was September 11, 2001. On this day, three thousand lives were taken by nineteen terrorist associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda. Those nineteen militants hijacked four full airplanes. Three out of the four planes crashed into heavily populated areas. The fourth plane was taken back by the passengers and was crashed into an empty Pennsylvania field. Ever…

Net Neutrality is a concept that defines access to the internet and all the information offered on the web as a human right without any discrimination. Meaning that internet service providers (ISPs) cannot and should not restrict access to any online content or show any favoritism to any online source above others. The debate over net neutrality has a long-standing history. To begin we must understand classifications of communication services un the Communications Act of 1934. Title I of the…

Muslims Immigration A. Introduction Over the past decade, the rise of Muslim immigrants has increased dramatically. With the recent terrorist attacks like the San Bernardino shooting, people are becoming concerned about Muslims entering the United states, and that left many people questioning if we should allow Muslims to enter the United states anymore, Donald Trump the president candidate who called on complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United states have been recently backed by…

When it is certain to confine parliamentary decisions for the sake of the insufficiency of the government’s ruling, it’s reasonable to state these disagreements. Thus, the nation should prevent the Federal Communications Commission, from withdrawing Net Neutrality. Based on the policy, where everyone is equal and certain rights are not abridged nor ignored. The FCC has abused their proposition and neglected our opinions. As a consequence, they are reshaping Americans’ online experience. This…

various countries have created and used some form of secret police such as the FBI and CIA. The names by which they are referred to varies based on the locations. In the United States of America these secret police agents are referred to as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA.) The KGB was originally established in Russia. These secret agents were hired to do undercover jobs for their country and were often referred to as “secret police.”…