Electronic Frontier Foundation

It 's a sunny afternoon in a California bank. The air is crisp and clean, the birds are bright and cheery, and the weather is all but perfect. Suddenly, a man bursts through the front doors, gun in hand. He orders everyone to drop to the ground and forces the bank manager to open up the safe. In that situation, everyone would know what to do. But what if the man had walked through the doors in a suit, claimed to be from corporate I.T. and wanted to check the power voltage on the branch 's computers

Since the software and Internet boom of the 1980’s, there has been the existence of click-on, (aka click-through, click-on license, or click-wrap agreement), End User License Agreements (EULA) and Terms of Service (TOS) contracts. These contracts require the user to give assent to “lease” the program or website by clicking on an” I agree” or “I disagree” button which either confirms that the user has read the EULA or TOS and is giving assent to those terms, or is rejecting those terms and therefore

Since its introduction, the World Wide Web has been an electronic hub for people to share thoughts anonymously with others all over the globe, however the internet has been used for activities deemed illicit. Governments have responded by limiting the access people have to certain parts of the web and monitoring people’s internet activities. There are people who believe that these governments’ actions have violated civil rights. In order to protect their anonymity, people have turned to The Onion

The Patriot Act In the wake of September 11, many things happened very quickly. Along with the beginning of a '"'war'"' against terrorism, an act was passed to help prevent future terrorism in the USA. The name of this is the USA Patriot Act. The act legalizes many surveillance techniques that were once prohibited. The act has been passed without debate, and the new privileges given to our government have not been thoroughly examined. The law enforcers of our country are now capable of monitoring

Government Surveillance on Society Our society is dystopian in that we are being watched by the government. The government’s surveillance ranges from cameras to electronics to even drones. We are told that this constant surveillance is for our safety and to make it a safe environment for us because their main reason is to protect us when in fact it may not be their true intentions. U.S. police have been asking for greater surveillance in order to keep pace with the technology use of criminals

The concept of a man-machine mixture was widespread in science fiction before World War II. As early as 1843, Edgar Allan Poe described a man with extensive prostheses in the short story "The Man That Was Used Up". In 1911, Jean de la Hire introduced the Nyctalope, a science fiction hero who was perhaps the first literary cyborg, in Le Mystère des XV (later translated as The Nyctalope on Mars).[7][8][9] Edmond Hamilton presented space explorers with a mixture of organic and machine parts in his novel

management roles in an electronic healthcare environment.18 The healthcare industry is undertaking a structural change by aligning HIT with the delivery of care to improve quality, control costs, and enhance the efficiency of the system. The strategy is to build a national health information infrastructure that allows health information to be shared between providers, consumers, and payers in a patient-centric manner. The infrastructure change is taking place on three frontiers. First, providers are

more on technological means of communication and have integrated privacy invading technology into their daily lives. It is not uncommon today for the average citizen to have all their conversations and movements tracked and stored into massive electronic databases simply because they carry a cell phone. The use of the internet as a means of communication and

complaints on how government collection of telephone records is unconstitutional and it violates the First Amendment rights of association. The coalition is represented by EFF. NSA uses a program called the Associational Tracking Program and it is an electronic surveillance program that collects and acquires telephone communications information for all telephone calls transiting the networks of all major American telecommunication companies, including Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint. Every day, the Associational

Censorship has been widely used throughout the United States since the late 1700s’ and is still used to this day. As technology emerges exponentially the use of censorship becomes more greatly enforced throughout society. Which results in mixed opinions with the way censorship are used. Some may think that censorship is a positive way to restrict inappropriate material, but, on the other hand, they may believe that the use of censorship conflicts with their rights to freedom of speech. The effectiveness