9/11 Surveillance Technology

Citizens do not always fully understand legislation before becoming angry at someone. Who better to point a finger at than their government (Zuckerman para 7)? Despite the actual legal terms on surveillance, innocent citizens feel that they have had their rights violated and wonder why the government needs their information if they have nothing to hide. The supreme court declared in the third party doctrine that “anyone turning over information to a third party, such as a bank or Internet service provider, has no right to object if that information is later shared with the government” (Timberg para 11). Whether they understand the law or not, most people feel that their information should not be unnecessarily subjected to the government without their voiced approval (Zuckerman para 6). “Quite simply, the administration could have done a much better job of explaining both the potential and the limits of data mining. It should have made it clear

Post September 11, Americans made the massive movement towards anti-terrorism. After the attacks, President George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security to help protect the citizens from terrorists. On that note as well, this counterterrorism move impacted law enforcement as well. Their roles grew from community law enforcement to proactively mitigating terrorist activities and intelligence gathering.

One key act was the Patriot Act that gave national security investigators provisions to track leads and dismantle plots before they occur. The Patriot act relaxed restrictions of information sharing between enforcement and intelligence officers, roving wiretaps, subpoena power for e-mail records, and other provisions set forth by this Act. The improved cooperation between the federal, state, and local authorities forming Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF), where communication is the key from the lowest level to the highest level to get suspects off the street. Terrorist travel has been really watched with the security at the airport or even on the plane has been upgraded with more air marshals and the multiple security checks at the

When the government or law enforcement has reasonable suspicion of criminal behavior, different methods of obtaining information and evidence must be used in the interest of preventing violence and decreasing crime. This is seen in the actions of Persistent Surveillance Systems, a security company run by Ross McNutt that utilizes military grade cameras, flown on planes two miles in the sky, to gain a bird's eye view of a region and any crimes that might occur. A controversy over privacy surrounds these methods; people tend to be uneasy with the feeling that they are being watched all the time, and it is easy to draw a parallel to Orwell’s all-seeing Big Brother. However, the cameras overhead are not forcing citizens to conform to a single mold or limiting freedom, they are monitoring for crime, or used to retrace the path of a crime after it occurs, as is the case in a murder in Juarez, Mexico. In this case, the police brought Persistent Surveillance the location of a body, which had been shot with no witnesses. McNutt and his team used the photos taken that day to locate the murder at the time it happened and trace the killer’s path to their current location, in less than a day. Upon further investigation the

On Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. security systems failed to stop the attack on the Twin Towers known as 9/11. After this attack the National Security Agency’s powers increased dramatically from surveillance limited to foreign countries, to all over the world after the attack on 9/11. They couldn't afford to let the security seem lenient. Because if terrorists see any kind of weakness in a system, they will attack it.

Security cameras in the State of Ohio to monitor the citizens for the purpose of homeland security is riddled with speculative skepticism. Cross verification with the multiple states (national and ultimately the world) government databases hedges on the idea of the well-known suspicion of “big brother” watching every move we make that George Orwell made famous in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949. As of this writing, the population of the world is 323,638,058. Ohio’s population is 11,613,423. (US and World Population Clock). The number of known terrorists in the world is 184,000 according to Beth Akers at techdirt (Akers, 2014). Of course, the number of terrorists is highly subjective to the definition of terrorist. However, that number indicates that .0569% of the world population and 1.584% of Ohio’s population may be “would-be” terrorists. The question that begs the answer is at what point shall we

Security can help monitor criminals, thus leaving citizens with the feeling of safety. Although this aspect of surveillance sounds appealing, there are necessary limitations. The article, “New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time” expresses, “Police are supposed to begin looking at the pictures only after a crime has been reported. Fishing expeditions are prohibited” (Timberg). Advanced surveillance usage should only be appropriate with probable cause.

To start, city surveillance systems captures data that is invaluable to police. Since 9/11, the public has become more accepting of increased security checks and for good reason. After the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013, the FBI was able to locate the suspects with the help of video surveillance. If video surveillance was not in place law enforcement

The Department of Homeland Security, for instance, coordinated effective development in the communication system between the federal and state governments. This was implemented in response to the lack of proper communication between the state and the federal government, which could have been crucial for the prevention of the attack. Fusion centers were established in states for the “receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information between federal; state, local, tribal, territorial; and private sector partners.” Along with fusion centers, many other reforms have been enacted in order to increase homeland security, of which included the enactment of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative and a drastic increase in grant funding for this specific cause. These were only a number of the reforms that were enforced following the attacks. In the attempt of increasing homeland security, the government strict enforced immigration laws, secured and managed the borders, and controlled international

Technology is an important asset in the fight against crime and provides law enforcement with powerful tools to continue prevent future crimes. The correctional system relies on an increase demand for technology rather than relying on traditional methods of security and control. One of those the technologies is the video enhancement to maintain security in the detention facility. Technology in secure institutions provides innovations that offer substantial savings in staffing and operations costs. Another type of technology is under-vehicle surveillance system that records the license plate and the underside of any vehicle entering the secure perimeter of the prison.

citizens, for the purpose of maintaining the security of the country from criminal and terrorist attacks. The federal government’s duty is to aid the lives of citizens the best they possibly can with the resources they are given. With increased amounts of technology being invented, surveillance will become easier and quicker; and without this surveillance thieves, criminals, and terrorists could easily escape with a variety of heinous acts. In the past few years, there have been countless newsworthy stories of homicides and terrorism: the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting, Newtown, Connecticut school shooting, Boston marathon bombing, Los Angeles Airport shooting, Fort Hood, Texas shooting, Chattanooga shooting, Colorado Springs, San Bernardino, the list is never ending; not to mention, these occurrences are only a few handpicked incidents from the U.S. alone. These acts entail that surveillance has become a necessity to fight against these wrongdoings before they occur, no matter their magnitude. With cooperation on allowing surveillance, criminal and terrorist acts could be terminated throughout the United

You’re walking in the street and you see a camera, it looks like it is watching you but you only seem to wonder, “What are they watching me for? I’m not going to do anything wrong.” And while you may think that, electronic monitoring does watch over you, but not just you everyone else too. Why are they watching everyone? Making sure that everybody is safe is one of the jobs we have to do as a nation. Crimes happen everyday and keeping an eye on everyone is one of the easiest things we can do. The use of electronic monitoring in public place is a reliable source for protecting peoples’ safety in a simple but reasonable way.

What once required massive manpower, now requires merely a personal computer. Technology has made the power to monitor others widely available, whether to governments, private enterprise or individuals. This article discusses some

9/11 was the largest attack ever on U.S. soil and prompted a government reaction. Not only was airport security heavily increased, but many other forms of security were expanded or

Within any society, information gathering and surveillance mechanisms exist. The sophistication of this information gathering varies, but at all levels; the information gathered can be received voluntarily or involuntarily. The collection of information, whether it is surveillance received at a traffic road crossing, or satellite images from outer space, occurs every day. Everyday life is subject to monitoring, checking and scrutinizing. To find a place or an activity, which is shielded from some kind of surveillance device is difficult. The ability for governments to have such surveillance capabilities is due to the growth of computer application areas and technical enhancement that are central to surveillance. The ability of nation