Right to Information Act

on whether the Patriot Act should be legal or not. The Patriot Act’s purpose is to “[make] it easier for the government to obtain the orders and allowed for greater coordination among intelligence agencies and law enforcement”(Philadelphia, par 14). But at what point is obtaining information from the American citizens too far? The issue for this debate is does the Patriot Act violate the people's rights. This debate has been going on since 2001 as some view the Patriot Act as unconstitutional…

the espionage act what he's doing is living in Russia. I can agree and disagree to his case. I agree for the a trial because he was trusted with high value information and he betrayed that trust and took classified information and gave it to the press. Also he gave out the information to other countries too and on top of that he betrayed his country. Legal Dictionary says “The Espionage Act is a law that was created in 1917, shortly after the United States joined World War I. The Act was…

When in May 2013, Edward Snowden disclosed information about the U.S. intelligence conducting controversial government surveillance activities to newspaper reporters, the US government accused him of violating the Espionage Act of 1917. Specifically, Snowden currently faces three criminal charges. The first charge falls under section 641 of the United State Code for theft of government property. The other two charges fall under the Espionage act section 793 (d) and section 798 (a)(3). These two…

USA PATRIOT Act The USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law by Congress and the president at the time, George W. Bush, on October 26, 2011. It was voted in the Senate 98-1 and the House of Representatives agreed 357-66 to pass the law. The ten letter backronym stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Protecting Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. The Congress was able to create this Act within a short period of time because they “took existing legal principles…

The boom of Management Information Systems (MIS) has resulted in major social, financial, and economic advancements in the twenty-first century. But like any major milestone in the advancement of the human race, the development of MIS has come with issues of moral and ethical dilemmas. Both business and private uses of MIS have the potential to cause financial, economic, and in extreme cases physical and mental harm to parties that use these modernized services. In 2013, the Internet Crime…

The Patriot Act is a government bill hastily passed after the days of the 911 terrorist attacks. In essence it is essentially an extension of a currently existing program called FISA, which allows for spying on other countries. This program costs a total of 64 billion dollars a year. And it also allows for government overreach in the form of civilian surveillance which is supposed to be prohibited by the 4th amendment (Costly 2). However the Patriot Act hasn't stopped any terrorist attacks…

Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle Facts: Microsoft sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) in April 2016 challenging portions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) which allows the government to serve a warrant on the company to get access to customers’ emails and other information stored on remote servers (the cloud), all without telling users their data is being searched or seized. The Government has pursued nearly 2,600 secrecy orders within the last year…

only the patient-physician relationship that demonstrated the need for patient confidentiality, but there are also a variety of outside forces and factors that contributed to this discovery. History has shown that patient confidentiality is a human rights issue that continuously evolves as the era changes, that concerns our individual liberties that must not be infringed upon. "Californian Sentenced to Prison for HIPAA Violation | Journal of AHIMA." Journal of AHIMA. N.p., n.d.…

As you know, when you go to the doctor, you sign your rights to privacy. Which is actually patient privacy rights, the Privacy Act of 1974? Which lead into effect December 31st 1974. An Act to amend title 5, to safeguard individual privacy from the misuse of Federal records, to provide that individuals be granted access to records concerning them, which are maintained by Federal agencies, to establish a Privacy Protection Study Commission, and for other purposes. In 1981, an epidemic of…

documentation found was the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, the document outline all the legislation relating to discrimination against those with an impairment and or disability One law identified relates to discrimination in a workplace. It states that it’s unlawful for an employer or purporting to act on behalf of an employer to discriminate against a person because of their disability. The law identified in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 is simply stating that it is unlawful…