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Domestic Surveillance in the Unites States has been going on for decades without the public 's knowledge. Domestic Surveillance didn 't seem important in the eye of the American government. After the September attacks (9/11) congress started to treat Domestic Surveillance as a number one priority. After September 11th Congress passed a law to use military force for those responsible for the attacks in New York, NY. The go ahead with using military force did not give the President to use surveillance without a warrant. Congress started to pass legislation against counterterrorism efforts. The most controversial measures, including the 2001 USA Patriot Act that gave the US federal government the ability to collect and analyze private information that has identified itself with the United States of America.

The United States government changed the face of computer and internet use when it signed the USA Patriot Act on October 26, 2001. This act was created in the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11 that same year. Many people believe that this act is a good thing and will help in defense against any future attacks. What most people do not know, however, is the effect of this act on the more general public. This includes individual people, public libraries, colleges and universities, and even trucking or hauling companies.

September 11, 2001 sparked many different feelings into the hearts of Americans. People sprang into action to seek revenge and protect America’s precious soils from another deadly attack by reinforcing America’s strength through her government. The men and women of Congress retaliated to the terrorist attacks by drafting and passing the USA PATRIOT Act on October 26, 2001, which stands for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.” The bill was moved through Congress with amazing speed and little hesitation. After the passing, the unsuspecting citizens of America were bombarded with many new rules and regulations that

After the tragic events of 9/11, the government desperately needed to find a way to contradict terrorism. They approached this conflict by passing the Patriot Act in October 26, 2001, signed by President George W. Bush. This act widened the government’s authority to invade their citizens’ privacy, while reducing checks and balances like judicial oversight, public accountability, and the ability to challenge government searches in court. Even though the Patriot Act was purposely ratified to benefit our country from dangerous terrorists, some people quarreled and disapproved of it. In my perspective, I would have also disagreed on the Patriot Act.

One of the worst, yet momentous events in U.S history occurred on September 11th, 2001. This event released a flow of patriotic fervor and a permanent fear among all Americans that they had also now become suspect to acts of international terrorists. This led to a lot of changes in the attitudes of the executive and legislative branches in the United States government. They came up almost immediately with new measures, which were supposedly against terrorism or terrorist threats. One of the principle acts passed by them was called "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001," also called the USA Patriot Act. This was signed and approved as law

Shortly after the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, a law was enacted by the US government, commonly known as The Patriot Act. This law expanded the power of government allowing them to obtain the personal information of any person of that may be a threat in hopes of preventing any future terrorist act. Several of the provisions were set to expire in 2005. However, Congress passed the “US PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act” in 2006 in order to reauthorize

The Patriot Act. Signed by George W. Bush on October 26, 2001, this act provided the government permission to spy on Americans. NSA can now monitor phone calls, emails, bank and credit report records, and Internet activity.

For instance many citizens believe it is against the there privacy rights to have everything in there phone surveillance, which is more so narrowed down to the phone calls, emails text messages and overall any searches and posts. This can become very upsetting to americans all around the United States.Many believe that the patriot act is not doing anything at all to actually help and that many claims are actually false. The people of america believe that the patriot act violates the privacy of millions of innocent people. Studies show that the government has collected much data from our phones, which consist of how long phone calls last between one another, as well as who it is that one has made a phone call too. Overall yes the government has stepped up when it comes to surveillance, most commonly due to the 9/11 terrorists attacks, studies show that due to the step up in surveillance there has been less things that have been gone unnoticed and attacks that have

Americans in that time were worried about being attack again. Soon, President George W. Bush signed the patriot Act and U.S. Congress passed it on October 26, 2001. The act increases the ability of law enforcement agencies to listen on everybody’s phone calls, read their emails or instant messaging, and search the private records. The way it allows the rights of any suspected terrorist to be taken away without probable causes of criminal. The Patriot Act lacked effectiveness, moreover, it took away human’s right and most importantly it violates human’s privacy.

The areas targeted in the USA PATRIOT Act were meant to aid anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism efforts. This involved expanding the use of tools to investigate other crimes for terrorism. Legal barriers that hindered information sharing among agencies were removed. Laws were updated with new technology that

13 days after the attacks of 9/11 the government implemented the Patriot Act, in which instituted "a new crime called ‘domestic terrorism,’ defined as ‘acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States,’ when the actor’s intent is to ‘influence the policy of a government by intimidation of coercion" (Benson et al., 3). How did the USA Patriot act come to be present in our system today? To relieve the government's concerns and cool the widespread public anxiety, the Patriot Act was presented to Congress bypresident George W. Bush in an extensive 342 page document. Three days after the presentaion , it was passed through congress onOctober 26, 2001 - practically unanimous as the House of Representatives passed it 357-66 and the Senate a staggering 98-1 (1). Albeit "the USA Patriot Act was approved by Congress and the president without the normal procedural review processes of intensive debateand hearings" in 2001, it was later re-passed in 2005 with more evident thought (Zusman and Helfand 1). In 2005 Congress took ninemonths to repass it, doing so on March 9, 2006 (Benson et al.,

The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, better known as the USA PATRIOT Act, or simply the PATRIOT Act was introduced on October 24, 2001, only 45 days after the devastating terrorists attacks of 9/11. It passed nearly unanimously, with only one person total in both the House or Representatives and the Senate voting against it. This law has many aspects, but perhaps the most controversial is the authorization of surveillance procedures, and the legitimacy of these provisions in regards to the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The following is an examination of the moral and homeland security implications this Act has on the American people and the

The USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law October 26, 2001, a little more then a month after the horrific attacks of 9/11; the Homeland Security Act was signed into law thirteen months later on November 25, 2002. The purpose of the USA PATRIOT ACT was to create the process that the Government and its organizations uses to investigate terrorists that are currently living within the Unites States borders and abroad. The Homeland Security Act was created to consolidate over 20 different federal organizations into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This

On September 11, 2001 our country had our first big terrorist attack on the world trade centers. After this attack our congress passed the act to ensure a safer country. The federal officials and authorities are allowed more freedom of tools and of intercepting terrorists act. "The FBI could get a wiretap to investigate

However, the public was completely unaware of this until Edward Snowden had come out, telling people to be aware of such an act. People wanted reform and they had wanted it immediately. The main issue first tackled was changing the contents of the act. This lead to the creation of The Freedom Act in 2015. In it, the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass collection of cell phone records would have to stop. After all, it was certain “officials have identified no terror attack prevented solely by the call record program” (Nelson). The mass collection of data from specific states, zip codes or cities were to end as well. However, this did not mean the government could not use said data again. Unless the investigator had a warrant or it was an emergency, the official would not be able to touch those records. To make sure no advantage was taken over the system, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was created. This was essentially a panel of people created to give guidance to any matters involving civil liberties and privacy. Called the FISA court, it gave the government the tools it needed under it’s watchful eye ("USA Freedom Act"). Although the collection of bulk data has been resolved, there is still the issue of targets being tracked although they