POL101Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mass Surveillance, Extraordinary Rendition, Data Mining
Document Summary
Americans generally value protection from terrorism over civil liberties, yet they also have expressed concerns over government overreach and intrusions on their personal privacy as obama secretly collected phone records. People"s greater concern is anti-terror policies won"t go far enough in adequately protecting the us but yet fewer americans think it"ll be necessary to sacrifice civil liberties to combat terrorism (2011), during aftermath of 9/11 opinion was opposite. Public never liked idea of government monitoring their personal phone calls/emails. Bush authorized national security agency to monitor phone calls/emails without court permission created civil liberties concerns, especially among democrats. Public concern also over amount of personal information businesses are collecting. Republicans now more concerned about possible privacy intrusions by government than they were during bush"s presidency (7(cid:854)% in (cid:854)(cid:852)(cid:853)(cid:854), (cid:855)9% in. Becoming national surveillance society with entrenched emergency mentality leading to negative impact on rule of law. Patriot act: uniting and strengthening america by providing appropriate.
