The Ethics Of A Government Intelligence Contract

Information Management has to do with capturing information, efficient planning, organizing and evaluating the information to interpret for an organization to make well informed decisions. (Hinton, 2006) The main reason organizations depend on information is to improve its overall management in

The use of U.S Government Acts to surveil it's citizens and corrupt can be traced back to 1917, when the Espionage Act first took place. The Espionage Act was a law which prohibited many forms of speech, including any "disloyal,profane,scurrilous, or abusive" language about the form of Government in the United States. This law was later extended under the name of The sedition act of 1918 to "cover a broader range of offenses,notably speech and expression of opinion" that obstructed the war effort.As time passed the laws were slowly extended, it was until the Red Scare hysteria when the fear of the bolshevist and anarchism kicked in and the justification was "the safety of the people".To Avoid for

Information can be relative to anything with regards to an organisation. When it comes to customers, it can be their address, telephone number or outstanding payments, when it comes to employees, it can be their appraisals, salaries, again their address and telephone numbers, and for the business, it can be the business’s finances, profits, employee and customer details, and various other information.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has the reputation as the world’s premier law enforcement agency with a vision to stay ahead of the threat through leadership, agility, and integration. (FBI's Strategy, 2017). As an intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization, the mission of the FBI is to protect the American people by upholding the Constitution of the United States, defend the US against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats; uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the US; and provide leadership and guidance of criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, international agencies and partners. (Today's FBI Facts & Figures, 2014).

- Information: is a knowledge which can be transferred or received concerning a particular fact or situation. And is a sequence of symbols that can be explained as a message. Information can be recorded as signs, or transmitted as signals.

" Over 100 thousand private emails are viewed a day"(byman). The National security agency and central intel lance agency are illegally viewing private documents and private records. They have access to all of these items without the peoples consent. The NSA is going through people's documents and they are giving them to other countries. The NSA and CIA should not be allowed to do these things to private documents.

These are organisations or individuals with strong views that may influence the decisions of businesses and the government.

The U.S. District Court of Pennsylvania ruled that the pamphlets were designed to cause men to resist the draft. Therefore, the court decided, Schenck had violated the Espionage Act. Schenck claimed there was not enough evidence to convict him of the charges that had been brought against him. He said that his actions were a form of free speech and claimed that the Espionage Act cut the rights of free speech. According to Schenck, the act was unconstitutional. He was convicted in the district court, and then he appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The issue before the Court was the following: Does the Espionage Act violate the First Amendment in respect to Schenck’s freedom of speech? The Supreme Court ruled unanimously to affirm the decision

In the previous section we determined the impact of management information on decision making process within an organisation. One of the Critical Success Factors (CSF) that enables effective decision making is “Information sharing”. This allows managers to take the right decision at the right time.

Information is data that has been processed so that it has meaning and value to a recipient,

The European parliament – the EU citizens elect a Member of Parliament, which Leads to subsequent legislation.

Information is data which is accurate and timely specific and organized for a purpose presented within a context that gives it meaning and relevance. Information can lead to an increase in understanding and decrease in uncertainty.

Under Art. 267, only ‘court or tribunal’ of a member state may initiate preliminary reference to the ECJ, however through succeeding case law this has been expanded by allowing entities whose members may not be judges, ‘provided that those entities have the power to adjudicate disputes’12. This concept of a court or tribunal has been interpreted widely as it is a matter of union law13. The Advocate-General in De Coster14 criticised the court’s approach and criteria to the interpretation as he deemed it confusing. The court in this instance accepted the reference, as ‘it was a permanent body established in law, that it gives legal rulings and that the jurisdiction is compulsory’15. The court in further cases has treated tribunals as not only tax appeal like in the case above but also; customs, social security and immigration.

These institutions are advised by the European Council (Heads of State and Government of EU Member States) and assisted by two advisory bodies:

After analysing Oracle’s historical data and financial statements as well as identifying key points for the company to consider, the group proposes the following recommendations in order to improve their current financial standing: