USA PATRIOT Act

Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, A Republican and a Senator Dick Durbin an Illinois Democrat. This bill would force the NSA to stop collecting phone records. Representatives James Sensenbrenner a Republican for Wisconsin has sponsored a version of the USA Freedom Act that had the support of the Obama administration. Both bills would stop the NSA form collecting private data. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden Democrat from Oregon held a conference with tech giants Microsoft Google and…

An act where the government can provide higher security for our country. An act that further protects Americans. The Patriot act strengthens and improves America by providing the appropriate tools to intercept terrorism in America. Providing America with the maximum security and doing everything to protect us from events such as 9/11 from happening again, is the governments goal with placing the Patriot Act. The one reason many Americans oppose the Patriot act is because of its little success.…

Many believe that the Anti Terrorism Act is in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As stated in the charter that the guarantees are not absolute. The limits posed by Parliament on our basic rights and freedoms are reasonable but does not have a broad description of what this consists of. The fact is that these must be "demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” This is a common issue found in the Constitution of Canada of who’s to determine what is reasonable…

on a suspect after they have been identified. This often resulted in missed opportunities, lost lives, just paving the way for only more destruction. But what if data could be collected in advance, before the suspect was even known? What if just the act of collecting data could result in the identification of completely new suspects? More than a few have pondered this question, just days after the Sept. 11th attacks on New York and the Pentagon, John Yoo, the Justice Department lawyer at the…

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance. Plan: The government will curtail its surveillance by only viewing collected data by means of a warrant. Intro-After the NSA reported their first transparency avowal, the publisher Omicron Technology Limited stated, “The report said 19,212 "national security letters"—administrative subpoenas that allow the FBI to collect information without a warrant—were issued last year, containing…

In 2001 with the passing of the “not so” Patriot Act, new powers were granted to the executive branch that allowed them to suspend due process of any suspect and enact wartime methods of extracting data due to national security or simply deny these civilians their legal rights.(Hunt, 2014) The Patriot Act, was established as an anti-terrorist tool, but quickly added to the nationalist tool box in militant response to civil opposition. The utilization of this militant tool to impede civilians…

crisis(9/11 Commission Report, 1). The law enforcement and intelligence agencies were actually restricted by law in the amount of information they could share with each other in order to honor the ‘civil liberties’ of the citizens (Friedman, 15). The Patriot Act which was passed in order to ‘preserve the life and liberty of citizens’ had many features concerning how terrorists could now be handled by the government. Now, increased surveillance was allowed and encouraged, assumed terrorists no…

been under fire recently for believing that they should be allowed access to our computers and if so should we be worried? Homeland Security is of the one of the many agencies created after 9/11 to protect the United States along with many bills, acts, and laws. The common misconception is that anyone in our government can hack the computers we own but that is not true. Homeland Security is most well known for increased measures after 9/11 but that does not include hacking. Homeland is in…

Post 9/11 Privacy Rights: The Case Against Electronic Surveillance In response to concerns about terrorism after the attacks on September 11,2001, the government of the United States enacted new guidelines for conducting surveillance on the public. This paper will discuss the implementation of electronic surveillance as a tool to combat terrorism and will make the case against sweeping electronic surveillance of American citizens and others in this country. Various examples of increased…

1.) The type of data that the National Security Agency is collecting data for the phone numbers, call location, duration, and times of all calls made each day within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries. 2.) I personally don’t feel like they should be allowed to collect this data. But there are advantages and disadvantages to them collecting this specific data. The advantages are that they can figure out who has been in touch with a terrorist specifically and who the person had…