Privacy laws of the United States

Rebecca McKenney Information Ethics Doctor Yaw 27 April 2018 Is Remixing Fair Use? In today’s world, it can be difficult to create something original without borrowing from someone else’s ideas. One of the ways that people combine originality and previously published works is through mashups or remixing. Even though some of these works are protected under copyright, do we still have the right to use this pervious material to create something new? In order to determine the answer, we must…

Boulden, also claimed that he knew “someone would have to get killed or beaten before they finally listened,” (Loffreda 239). In this situation, the government failed to have legislation that would protect individuals from hate. Had the state government had laws enact, it may have deterred the perpetrators from beating Shepard to death. At the Citadel, upperclassmen governed over those younger to them. Discipline at The Citadel was a concept that many believed the cadets needed in order to…

Hate crimes form one of the greatest threats to the prosperity of society. It thrives off bigotry, aimed at individuals or groups because of their identities.These identities can be: race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation and disability. As illustrated by statistical figures, many sources assess the major increase in these crimes. As hate crimes are condemned as amoral and unethical, the controversy relates to the definition, legislation, and prosecution…

prosecute, and remove certain situations for establishing a hate crime in federal law. Human Rights, civil rights, and in law enforcement agencies, and officially opposed bad conservative religious group Focus on the Family. The need for this provision is real, as demonstrated by Matthew…

FBI’s Civil Rights program and each year an estimated 1,200 crimes are reported, however, the number is most likely higher due to underreported cases. In 2012, an astonishing 5,796 were committed. Laws regarding these crimes vary among states. 15 states and the District of Columbia have hate crime laws that include crimes…

Like most laws, the act does not use the words ‘hate crime’, relying instead on more traditional criminal law language to create the specific offences of ‘racially or religiously aggravated’ assault, criminal damage, harassment, stalking, and several public order offences. The act itself very much dependant on…

From a social standpoint, there have been countless reports regarding the upsurge in hate crime and racism activity in the UK following the Brexit result. Before delving into the statistical figures, it is important to provide some clarification regarding the statistics. There have been various reports showing differing figures, however, this is due to the fact that the majority of news articles use information provided by either the Home Office, which only gathered data from England and Wales,…

There are only five states that do not have a specific law. One of these states includes South Carolina. This has become a huge talking point since the young white gunman shot up an African American church in Charleston, SC. Prosecution is unable to add the hate crime charges due to the state not having a law. The federal government could get involved- if they don’t thing the state’s law is properly proportionally to the crime committed- and add on hate…

of the incidents they receive from local law enforcements agencies. Hate crimes are defined as a criminal act that are motivated wholly or partly by criminals because of race, religion, ethnicity, disability or sexual orientation. Hate crimes are committed against people, against property and against society. Each state has its own legislation, which allows each state to define hate crime laws and to choose which classification to include in their laws. Hate crimes are usually targeted in…

very influenced by committing violence. Gay rights advocates have called on S.C. lawmakers to enact state hate crime laws. They never re-introduced a hate crime bill (Hill). Attacks on people simply because of their religion or sexual orientation are especially disturbing. In part because they can evoke memories of the uglier side of human nature and the role it has played in our history (Hill). State Rep. John King says “We have an obligation to make our communities safe for all people, anyone…