Surveillance

Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) was created by the United States Congress with the Passing of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act(FISA) of 1978. The main purpose of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is to provide jurisdictive guidance of intelligence activities in a secure, classified setting. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is make of Federal judges that are selected by the United States Supreme Court Chief Justice. (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,…

THE INTERNET:PERMANENT MEMORY BANK Thesis:The concern about privacy on the Internet is becoming a real problem because the Internet makes people paranoid and stressed all the time while they are using this permanent memory bank that actually means the end of forgetting.Everything that you can do online or offline,now track you through the rest of your life and can easily come back to haunt you.This situation doesn’t give people any other chances about thinking the results of what they do on…

Everyone is always capable of being under surveillance but citizens never fully know when the surveillance is on them. America in the 21st century. has moved into being a public society. Having a public society brings along little brothers. Little Brothers are everywhere watching everything and everyone. Everyone including yourself is a little brother. While having all these little brothers around watching could be a bad thing, I do believe the good outweighs the bad. Just like in the book…

In today’s world, everyone is always on their phone or on the internet. Whether it be for work or just for personal pleasure, the internet is being used all the time by almost everyone. In the article “The Internet Is a Surveillance State” written by Bruce Schneier, many examples are shown that provide evidence that everything that people do on the internet is now being tracked. The author is a security technologist and author of Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs and many…

A Reading Analysis of “The Internet is a Surveillance State” Have you ever thought about how easily a person could be caught inappropriately using the Internet. Considering all the many reasons people use the Internet, it is important to keep in mind that whatever is searched on the Internet or through social media is watched, a history is kept of every search. This essay is a reading analysis of the article entitled “The Internet is a Surveillance State”, written by Bruce Schneier. This…

Question 2. How can the concepts of territoriality and natural surveillance help determine design techniques and guidelines to help deter crime? Territoriality explains that a person or individual involvement and his/her relationship with the environment. Understanding of territoriality supports an individual to protect his/her living surroundings from the outsider’s attack by owning the control of that surroundings. Ownership means that person has legal and all rights reserved. In other words,…

have been rewritten to give the government more freedom in observing our electronic fingerprint (“Surveillance Under the Patriot Act”). In their hurry to act on the tragedy of 9/11, Congress passed the Act a mere 45 days of the event, with little to no debate. The result of it’s ratification, was a drastic change in the surveillance laws and restrictions of the federal government (“End Mass Surveillance Under the Patriot…

Surveillance and Big Brother Are we closer to living in a society like Big Brothers as technology advances? Technology has come a long way, all good of course. Over the years, people have become more dependent on technology because its a fast and reliable source to get things done. People are so fixated on getting things done the quick and easy way that they don't really have time in their busy life to contemplate if they are deserving enough. If they took just a little bit of time from their…

While some may argue that government surveillance programs are necessary to insure public safety, to allow the infringement of the rights guaranteed by the US Constitution is too high a price to pay. September 11, 2001 should not be just remembered as the beginning of America’s “War on Terrorism,” it should also be remembered as being the first “cybersecurity war.” The terrorists who had used the internet for their recruitment, and communications, on many occasions, were subsequently…

Global Hawk System Safety UAVs are a rapidly growing part of the aerospace world. Though they have mainly been utilized in military functions, the continued development of UAVs is leading toward civilian application in addition to continued military use. The use of UAVs in commercial environments brings with it a new set of safety risks which must be investigated, analyzed, and mitigated in order to ensure safe operation in the national airspace system (NAS). (Lum & Waggoner, 2011.) This paper…