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¶ … Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society
Issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in January 2003, this report is a dim view of the pervasive influence technology has on the private lives of Americans. Written by Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt, the paper examines the various uses of technology by both private industry and the government to collect both visual and written data as well as monitor the movements and habits of private citizens without their consent or knowledge.
The report begins with a warning that our privacy and liberty are at risk. The recent advent of computers, cameras, sensors, wireless communication, GPS, biometrics, cell phone location abilities, and other technologies is "feeding a surveillance monster that is growing in our midst." Furthermore, new technologies such as face recognition programs, implantable GPS and RFID chips, data-mining, DNA chips and "brain wave fingerprinting" are debuting daily. This combined with recent legislation, such as the Patriot Act, which under the guise of national security lowers or eliminates the standards established to determine...
When centralized this technology allows law enforcement to view images from cameras across a designated area, giving officers the capacity to zoom in on people from cameras a half mile away. Currently there is no evidence to support the assumption that this technology enhances security or reduces crime.
Data surveillance is the collection of information about an identifiable individual, often from multiple sources, that can be assembled into a portrait of that person's activities. The spread of computer chips in our daily lives means that more and more of our activities leave behind data trails. Soon it will be possible to combine information from different sources to recreate an individual's activities with such detail that it becomes no different from being followed around all…
The commodification of personal information by corporations has become a multi-billion -- dollar industry. Companies called data aggregators are in the business of compiling detailed databases on individuals and then selling that information to others. The authors report the Justice Department has an $8 million contract with data aggregator ChoicePoint that allows government agents to tap into the company's vast database of personal information on individuals. Although the Privacy Act of 1974 banned the government from maintaining information on citizens who are not the targets of investigations, the FBI can now evade that requirement by simply purchasing information that has been collected by the private sector.
The report also notes threats to personal financial information as well as medical and genetic information that potentially may be used to discriminate against individuals seeking employment or insurance. Furthermore in 2002 new guidelines on domestic spying were issued that significantly increased the freedom of federal agents to American individuals and organizations.
The reports notes that though a vast amount of information has been collected about U.S. citizens, privacy has been protected by the fact that all this information still remains scattered across many different databases. However, should this information be pulled together in one enormous database, the assembled information could add up to an extremely detailed and intrusive picture of an individual's life and habits. The report calls for legislation to keep this from happening otherwise, it will occur by default, and we may never know. The truly disturbing part is that this paper was published eight years ago.
Computer Hacking, Electronic Surveillance and the Movie Sneakers Sneakers Sneakers (1992), directed by Phil Alden Robinson, begins in December of 1969 as college students Martin Brice and his friend Cosmo are hacking into government and other computer networks and manipulating financial accounts by transferring funds from the Republican National Committee to the Black Panther Party and so forth as what is later termed a "prank." When Brice leaves to get a pizza
Studies done by the United States Defense Department have discovered the technology to be correct only fifty-four percent of the time. Furthermore, the study found that the systems could easily be compromised by alterations in weight, hair color, sunglasses, and even weather and lighting alterations (McCullagh & Zarate, 2002). Additionally, behavioral recognition software can often incorrectly identify movements, such as tree branches, and follow those objects instead of actual
In your explanation, compare and contrast domestic and international terrorism. Also, please indicate whether either type of terrorism is subject to defeat. or, in a free society such as ours, must we simply learn to live with the annoyance and tragedies of ideological, political, and/or religiously-motivated violence?) Domestic terrorism is much more statistically common than foreign terrorism, as those who feel they have cause to be angry enough to act
Studies suggest that even "more "omniscient" technology is likely to be developed" in the near future (Lyon, 2002). Cookies were perhaps the first form of internet surveillance, developed in 1994 as a means for websites to track visitors logging in so they could provide more optimal service (Lyon, 2002). Now cookies have transformed the shape of communication and have further advanced the ability of criminals to survey individual user functions
Edgar Hoover, makes public its continuing investigation into the activities of black nationalist organizations, singling out the Black Panther Party in particular, Hoover viewing the group as a national security threat. January 05, 1970 Blacks Move Out of Inner Cities: The Bureau of Census statistics show as the quality of life in poverty-stricken urban communities worsens, a continuous stream of middle-class blacks escape to higher-income neighborhoods and suburbs. February 13, 1970 First Black
" Lutge-Smith, T.) There are various expert views and statistics to support the positive influence of the Internet on education. A survey conducted by Pew Internet & American Life indicates that 86% of U.S. college students use the Internet. The study states that students perceive the Internet as essential to their academic lives. "While close on 80% of college students in the United States claim that the medium has had a positive