Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

products with each other. Unfortunately the owners or creators of these digitalized works stand to suffer financial detriment if an individual can share the products with others either freely or for profit. Before the passing of NET, the Copyright Act of 1976 was enacted to pose civil action against individuals who were illegally distributing the copyrighted work of another, but no criminal charges were allowable. NET resulted from a test case brought by the Department of Justice before the…

Name Tutor Course Date After the 9/11 Event In his 2012 book titled, ‘Understanding the War on Terror’, Patrick Coaty discusses issues related to terrorism, especially after the 9/11 attack. According to him, terrorism emerged at the end of the eighteen century in post-revolutionary France. The initial concept of terrorism was a legitimate system of government that used terror to assert its influence. However, the phenomenon of terrorism has taken different guises since its initiation, as…

This part of my paper will analyze the impact of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) primarily on Information-Sharing. There were many trajectories to the law after the attack of September 11th 2001. We shifted our attention on security and protection of the United State, but above all we shifted attention in preventing Al-Qaeda from creating any such attack against the U.S. in so doing IRTPA was created to improve the Justice department, the FBI and CIA ability…

There are some things that persist throughout history and into the modern world. One of such is the increase of pain or stress levels of an individual to obtain information. These said situations are often classified as torture. These acts have been used since the stone ages into the modern ages, and although have changed drastically over time, still remains. Despite what critics say, torture tactics of interrogation should not be allowed to be used in official government situations; there are…

the United Nations Convention Against Torture. These papers give the Human Rights advocates a strong leg to stand on. A Consequentialist might turn around and say that adhering to these documents is morally wrong since in the eyes of anyone going by act utilitarianism or evaluating consequences would see it as something that is preventing good from happening. They would think this because they see torture as a means to bringing about more good, even if it’s just a possibility of bringing about…

push government to take several actions to counter terrorism. Such a situation is reflected in the ongoing debate about the Bill C-51, the Canadian Anti-Terror Law as a mean to protect the Canadian citizens. The Bill implies a certain degree of surveillance of the population and information sharing among the different sectors of the Government. The controversy of Bill C-51 comes from the dilemma it creates between the necessity to protect the population and the right to privacy. One hand, the…

referenced as the Patriot Act, and was signed by Bush on Oct. 26, 2001. Essentially the USA Patriot was created to Strengthen the federal government's power to conduct surveillance, perform searches, and detain individuals in order to combat terrorism. passed in 2001 and was introduced to the House as the Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act of 2001, and was later passed by the House as the Uniting and Strengthening America (USA) Act (H.R. 2975) on…

gathered and the trips were extremely time consuming and difficult on the rudimentary highways of the time. These trips would also be a red flag to US Intelligence if the Rosenbergs came under surveillance. To alleviate this problem, Julius and Ethel decided David’s wife, Ruth Greenglass would move to a residence in Albuquerque, New Mexico to act as a courier to pass information gathered by David to Soviet agents already working in the area around the Los Alamos facilities. Ruth would…

The Patriot Act was made with the respectable goal of finding and arraigning global fear mongers working on American soil; in any case, the disastrous outcomes of the Act have been uncommon. A considerable lot of the Patriot Act's arrangements are in clear infringement of the U.S. Constitution—a report drafted by savvy men like Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington so as to secure American rights and opportunities. The Patriot Act infringes on sacrosanct…

States have taken massive counterterrorism measures home with us. The United States Patriot Act of 2001 made significant changes in the structure of federal law enforcement, it was revised in 2006 and in 2004 when the 9/11 commission called for a complete overhaul of the U.S. intelligence system the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan or NCISP set standards for a new system of domestic intelligence gathering and analysis. These changes were made in regards to personal privacy and civil…