num_pages: 24327
description: This comprehensive CD-ROM provides a thorough overview of the controversial USA Patriot Act which provides new tools to American law enforcement in the fight against terrorism. (The full name of the act is Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.) It also covers the military DARPA Information Awareness Office, recently highlighted by coverage in the media as planning the creation of a database on the activities of Americans. Here are just a few of the topics covered by the fascinating articles in this enormous collection: The complete copy of the USA Patriot Act, Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations, Technology in Internet Surveillance, Homeland Security Information Sharing,Financial Crimes,Enforcement Network,House of Representatives Documents, DARPA Information Awareness Office and related DARPA technologies. The DARPA Information Awareness Office "will manage, develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate, and transition information technologies, components and prototype, closed-loop information systems that will counter asymmetric threats by achieving total information awareness useful for preemption, national security warning, and national security decision making. Example technologies include: Large, distributed repositories with dynamic schemas that can be changed interactively by users, foreign language machine translation and speech recognition; biometric signatures of humans; pattern detection; human network analysis; story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance, human ID at a distance." Over 24,000 pages are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included. Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust.
title: 2003 Guide To Domestic Spying, The Usa Patriot Act, And The Darpa Information Awareness Office: Surveillance, Computer Intercepts, Technologies For Anti Terrorism
titlecomplete: 2003 Guide To Domestic Spying, The Usa Patriot Act, And The Darpa Information Awareness Office: Surveillance, Computer Intercepts, Technologies For Anti Terrorism (Core Federal Information Series Cd Rom)
publisher: Progressive Management