Electronic Communications Privacy Act

famously said: “They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety.” I hope by the end of this speech you agree with this founding father. Because, that’s right, we are talking about the USA PATRIOT Act and the idea of freedom versus security, otherwise known as Hollywood’s go-to theme for the past decade. This is how I imagine how every conversation goes in every writers’ room in LA: “Hey, Mark?” “Yeah, Steve, what do you need?” “Well, I just can’t

of privacy is a big concern in the workplace. With the expanding of new technology, many employees are concern about his or, her privacy in the workplace. Employees have the right to go to work knowing that his or, her employer will not invade their privacy. The rights to privacy in the workplace only provide limited protection for workers against monitoring and breach of confidentiality. The National Work Rights Institute states, under the federal law, "the limited protection the Electronic Communication

Introduction to Government Regulations in Information Technology Government Regulations in Information Technology refer to the various laws and statutes that apply to the transfer and/or modification of information and technology enacted by different legislative bodies of the government and the regulatory bodies that enforce the laws as they relate to information technology. There are a number of laws that directly apply to the Information Technology sector. There are also a number of organizations/agency

Outline: Electronic surveillance and the right to privacy Purpose: To inform the audience about electronic surveillance and the right to privacy Thesis: Electronic surveillance and the right to privacy is an increasingly controversial issue in modern American society. In this speech I will describe the technology, how employers and the government use the technology, and how the courts have interpreted the right to privacy. Organizational Pattern: Topical I. Introduction A. Attention Getter- 'I always

searches are presumed unreasonable, and any evidence seized will not be admissible in court unless an exception to the warrant requirement is proven, such as the “good faith” exception. Even though the Fourth Amendment made an attempt to ensure the privacy of citizens, technological advances have made that challenging. The use of technology by law enforcement has been around for centuries and has expanded extensively over the past two decades. Telephone tapping, CCTV, GPS tracking, “bugging”, eavesdropping

information from foreign communication (Raul). Surveillance of foreign parties could provide important information of possible terrorist attacks. Next, Bush secretly used electronic surveillance to watch suspected terrorists. In 2002 the emails and phone calls of suspected terrorist were put on watch by the National Security Agency. Although the surveillance was warrantless, the government did it for the better of the citizens. After, Bush signed the Protect America Act in 2005. The act now allowed the

Security and privacy of cloud-based data is only effective through agreed upon application of policy and governance against the underlying technology architecture. The compulsion of third-party vendors to turn over data to law enforcement, or otherwise be complicit in interception or storage of data is a direct threat to the integrity, security, and privacy of data stored by service providers (Subashini and Kavitha 2011). Understanding the technical component of data security and privacy are not sufficient

Today even a child can harness and use the vast number of electronic devices to send and receive mass amounts of information. From the invention of the telephone to the personal home computer, we have invented an plethora of new devices to communicate through. Although these new communication inventions have made our lives more convenient and allow us to contact anyone at essentially any time at any place, an issue of secrecy and privacy arises. Most individuals use things such as cell phones,

PRIVACY • Privacy has sometimes been described as: the right to be left alone, or the right to exercise control over one’s personal information, or a set of conditions necessary to protect our individual dignity and autonomy. • Information Privacy- the way in which governments or organizations handle our personal information such as our age, address, sexual preference and so on. • Financial Data – Personal financial data must be kept in its highest confidentiality in order to secure private

Employee Privacy Rights Human Resource managers and their staff members have to be sure to be up to date on all of the pertinent laws and regulations so that they can recognize the importance and need for discretion when handling all types of information about employees of the organization. The federal Privacy Act of 1974 heightened awareness and increased attention to privacy with regards to identity theft in recent years. What this means is that while the act applies to almost exclusively maintaining