Privacy laws of the United States

Racial inequality has been a reality in the United States for its entire history and presently continues to be a force that creates division among Americans. Many Americans believed that racism ended with the Civil Rights era in the 1960s, during which figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X led the movement for equality. However, it was not until 2014, with the death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man at the hands of a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, that racism…

Long Term Care Facilities Long term care is for an individual who requires assistance with physical or emotional needs over an extended period of time (Day, n.d.). The individual would need support with activities daily for healthy living. The individual would require this type of help due to illnesses, diseases or age preventing the individual from doing daily activities (Day, n.d.). “Estimates by experts are that at least 60% of all individuals will need extended help in one or more of the…

Heath care in the United States has always been complex sector. There have been numerous debates on how it should be administered (in terms of privatized or government funded), how to make it affordable and be of good quality, as well as how to make it accessible to everyone. Another important aspect of this industry lies within its security. Discretion has always been a necessity since there is private information such as social security numbers, names and addresses to protect as well as…

for those in our society who choose to act against the law: the courthouse. There are several different types of courts, each specializing in an area of offense. Some courts are ranked higher than others. For example, if the defendant is not satisfied with the verdict of the district court, it can be appealed to the appellate court. If one wishes to continue appealing to higher courts they may find their case in the hands of the United States Supreme Court, the highest ranking court in the…

A lot of crimes have been committed in the United States and around the world in which an IPhone is involved. In some instances the Iphone has a lot of evidence which can help solve the case but law enforcement officers such as the FBI are not able to get access to the phone because of its powerful encryption. It is very frustrating on the part of the FBI because they know that since the phone is an Apple product, Apple can give them access to penetrate the phone but Apple is unwilling to…

The NSC-68 was the source of the escalation of the Cold War and the US Patriot Act provides increased security and guarantees freedom without compromising privacy for the American Public. Both were significant because they were written to secure the home front. In 1947 Congress passed the National Security Act which established a Department of Defense over three separate services. These services were the army, the navy, and the new air force. The act also created the Central Intelligence Agency…

a national Health Information Exchange (HIE). Consequently, without a national HIE the problem of having a system that allows for continuous quality improvement in the quality of health care received by a patient and still protecting the right to privacy still exists. Additionally, the culture of America views the PHI as being needed to be protecting to the point that it hinders providers from giving good quality care, thus leading the patient to receive double the testing wasting the time…

forensic science, including DNA analysis, are undergoing change in the United States and around the world. The validity and accuracy of older and even current methods are being challenged. New approaches for interpreting evidence via probabilistic modeling are being introduced. A better appreciation of difficulties that can exist for the field of forensic science is gained when the diverse cultures of scientific laboratories, law enforcement, and the legal community interact (Butler, 2015). An…

precedent was set regarding the abortion rights of women in the United States. At the time, Texas abortion laws insisted that the act of aborting a pregnancy was prohibited, lest a doctor could reasonably determine that the mother’s life was at stake if the pregnancy was continued, or if the conception was a result of rape or incestuous relations. Norma L. McCorvey, who went by the pseudonym of Jane Doe, sought to challenge this law as her third pregnancy came under way. She unsuccessfully…

Federal agencies have led law enforcement efforts against computer crime since these agencies hold the technical expertise and political influence to gather significant financial and operational resources at the national level. Thus, these agencies have progressively reorganized in an attempt to channel resources directly at preventing digital crimes and capturing computer criminals, including the creation of special sections within these organizations, employing of new personnel who have…