The US Patriot Act Deconstruction, Civil Liberties And Patriotism
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On US Homeland Security, Data Mining and Civil Liberties
The US Defense Department’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has recently launched a Total Information Awareness (TIA) Initiative as part of national efforts to safeguard the US homeland from future terrorist threats. The vision behind the Initiative is to integrate public and private databases of all data relevant to monitoring the activities of potential terrorists and their ...
متن کاملCivil liberties and economic development
Skepticism prevails among a substantial number of economists over a possible connection between civil liberties and the level of economic activity. Until now, empirical research on economic growth has found mixed evidence on the influence of civil liberties. Disaggregation of the Freedom House Civil Liberties Index allows a fresh empirical look at the effect of human rights on long-term growth ...
متن کاملBehavior therapy and civil liberties.
For the past two hundred to three hundred years, science has played a major role in the development of western culture. Societies have capitulated to the demands of "progress" and have disregarded the costs as expedients to the industrial revolution (Etzioni, 1968, p. 208). Unfortunately, the costs have mounted quietly, and perhaps because the awareness has been so long delayed, there is a stro...
متن کاملPublic health and civil liberties
The opinion pieces that constitute this month’s ‘Talking Point’ address the old conflict between the enforcement of public health measures and the inevitable infringements of individual rights and liberties that are the result. The task of the ‘neutral commentator’ is made difficult by the fact that the authors are not particularly at odds with each other. George Annas argues that compulsory en...
متن کاملCivil liberties and public good: detention of tuberculous patients and the Public Health Act 1984.
On 30 August 1998, the Mail on Sunday, under the headline "TB refugee 'must be held in hospital"', described the case of a Somalian man who had been "ordered by a court to remain in hospital for six months to prevent him spreading a highly infectious deadly disease". That disease was tuberculosis and a court order had been issued "after the man had twice staggered into Northwick Park Hospital i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Business & Economics Research (JBER)
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2157-8893,1542-4448
DOI: 10.19030/jber.v6i3.2397