HONOR 3374 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: American Civil Liberties Union, Edward Snowden, Espionage Act Of 1917
14 Nov 2017
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Intelligence has become more difficult to track with data encryption: this issue is known as going dark . Congress: should encryption be weakened to allow access to evidence for a crime, american civil liberties union (aclu) is opposed to weakening encryption technology. Threat to privacy, decrease in cyber and national security. Edward snowden: released thousands of classified national security agency (nsa) documents, with concerns for privacy protections. 9-11: congress passed the foreign intelligence surveillance act (fisa) for regulating government agencies ability to collect foreign intelligence with physical searches or electronic surveillance, fisa amended after 9-11. Paris attacks highlighted problems in intelligence and law enforcement: balancing concerns with technology and national security. Other versions of encryption available, making major companies such as apple create a. Back door wouldn t necessarily make it easier to get into phones for evidence. First amendment protects communication with encryption http://www. nytimes. com/roomfordebate/2014/09/30/apple-vs-the-law. People store important information in their phones: account numbers, personal messages, photos .
