Electronic Communications Privacy Act

1928- Olmstead v.United States Supreme court rules federal investigators can wiretap into suspects phones legally, and use those conversations as evidence. Roy Olmstead, a suspected bootlegger, was bugged in the basement of his office, and also in the streets surrounding his home. He was later convicted based on that evidence. An appeal was raised on the grounds that the wiretapped data violated the defendant 's Fourth and Fifth Amendment. It was decided that the wiretapped data did not violate

The idea of privacy protection for private citizens is rooted in history back to the Magna Carta. With the passage of time and the evolution of communication the laws of the United States have attempted to ensure a balance between security of the nation and protecting privacy. The current state of privacy and the law is now in a state of flux as citizens have begun to rely more and more on technological means of communication and have integrated privacy invading technology into their daily lives

Eavesdropping? Eavesdropping as we know it in layman terms is the act of secretly listening to a conversation, private or otherwise of which we are not actively a part. In computer security, the definition carries the same meaning in digital terms. __Eavesdropping__ in computer security is defined as the unauthorized interception of a conversation, communication or digital transmission in real time. The various forms of communication include phone calls, emails, instant messages or any other internet

portals without regards to implications on the students’ future. Within the student information systems that are used in the schools employees are becoming careless with students’ data. “The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that protects the privacy interests of students” (National Forum on Education Statistics, 2006, Pg. 2). Employees of the

Professor Kiehn English 302 3 October 2013 Personal Privacy in the Information Age Some of the most contentious and recurrent argumentative dialogues regarding civil liberties stem from what seems at face value, like a relatively elementary idea the notion of personal privacy. This debate could never be more relevant than in present day society, where globalization and advanced communications technologies have synergized to form a ubiquitous digital library of shared information. The specific example

mANAGEMENT 350: hUMAN RESOURCE mANAGEMENT | “Legal and Ethical Aspects of Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance of Employees” | | By: Chakana Moore, Patricia Davis, Eric Luken, Michelle Dailey, Jeffrey Webb | | 11/21/2011 Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance Human Resource Management Research Project November 21, 2011 Legal and Ethical Aspects of Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance of Employees Introduction Workplace monitoring has been a point of discussion within

The right to privacy, via electronic transmissions to include the internet, is an ever present issue that does not and most likely will not ever have a solution that will not only satisfy the wants of citizens but the security needs of the nation. When issues of privacy arise we refer to a non-evolving, interpreted document called the Constitution written over two centuries ago. In order to maintain national security, citizens must surrender some privacy for the good of the nation and themselves

"Privacy. There seems to be no legal issue today that cuts so wide a swath through conflicts confronting American society: from AIDS tests to wiretaps, polygraph test to computerized data bases, the common denominator has been whether the right to privacy outweighs other concerns of society…" This quote from Robert Ellis Smith explains, in one sentence, the absolute need to ensure privacy in the workplace. One of the most interesting, yet controversial, areas concerning public personnel is employee

“Privacy is dead – get over it”, according to Steve Rambam, a privacy investigator who specializes in Internet privacy cases, this is how he considers privacy to be in today’s society. He is just another entity living in the midst of a high technology society to whom privacy seems to be dead when reaching the Internet. With all the traffic on the Internet, the risk of private information falling into the wrong hands is excessive, and with all the advances in computer technology the rate of privacy

The Stop Online Piracy Act was proposed in January of 2012. SOPA was a legislative act that attempted to prevent piracy through DNS blocking and censorship. The legislation caused the protest and blackout of multiple online internet services including Reddit, 4Chan, Google, Wikipedia, Mozilla, and Tumblr. Now, internet users are faced with another possible challenge called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA. CISPA was quickly passed by the House of Representatives on April