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going into its third annual release, the legal treatise
Privacy Law and The USA PATRIOT Act deals not
only with the parts of the PATRIOT Act that have been
most debated, but with other effects of the PATRIOT
Act on privacy, including financial privacy and the
Bank Secrecy Act, immigration law, educational privacy,
white collar and other criminal procedure, FISA, different
standards of probable cause, national security letters,
and much more. In light of the current debate over
the National Security Agency's domestic electronic
surveillance program, you may find the Church Committee
Report of the 1970s interesting. Those who don't learn
from history are doomed...etc.
Here,
too, are links that I hope you find useful in coming
to your own conclusions about the USA PATRIOT Act,
surveillance, and privacy. Some of them lead out
of this site.
ON
THIS WEBSITE:
A
Library of Surveillance-Related Government Documents.
Downloaded from the Justice Department, Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network, Congressional Research
Service, and other government sources, these documents
were invaluable in preparing the 2006 and 2007 releases
of Privacy Law and the USA PATRIOT Act.
Taken together, they help provide a panorama of
the government's post-9/11 efforts to obtain infomration
on individuals. Assembling that raw data into a
coherent picture is the purpose of Privacy Law
and the usa PATRIOT Act. This page is being built
slowly and on a continuing basis.
The
1976 Church Committee Reports. The Church Committee's
inquiries into government abuses led to the passage
of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
FBI
Inquiries into Library Reading Records in the 1970s
The historical antecedent to library hostility to
PATRIOT Act Sec. 215 and National Security Letters
Selected
Criminal
Surveillance and Terrorism
Crime Statutes The PATRIOT
Act isn't a single statute in the U.S.Code. It modified
dozens. Here are some of the more important ones.
OUTSIDE
THIS WEBSITE:
Electronic
Privacy Information Center
Federation
of American Scientists
United
States Department of Justice
United
States Department of Homeland Security
PatriotDebates.com
Information
Sharing Websites
Paul
A. Ibbotson has placed additional links to resources
on the PATRIOT Act at www.patriotactresearch.com
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