The Real ID Act : privacy and government surveillance / William Eyre.
2011
KF4791 .E97 2011 (Map It)
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Author
Title
The Real ID Act : privacy and government surveillance / William Eyre.
Published
El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2011.
Call Number
KF4791 .E97 2011
ISBN
9781593324568 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1593324561 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1593324561 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description
xi, 211 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)693810911
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
ix
Introduction
xi
ch. 1
Surveillance Today
1
A Day in the Life
1
Data Fusion and Integration
14
Privacy as a Right
20
Privacy in Internet Communications
29
Americans' Attitudes Regarding Privacy
43
Privacy and the Law
45
The Public Discourse and Societal Norms Regarding Privacy
48
Government's Assumption of Extraordinary Power
51
Alien and Sedition Acts
52
The Civil War - Habeas Corpus
52
World War I - The Espionage and Sedition Acts
54
World War II - The Smith Act and Japanese Detentions
58
Korean Conflict & Cold War - McCarran-Walters
59
The Vietnam Conflict
60
The USA PATRIOT Act
60
ch. 2
Foundational Theory of Surveillance
65
What is Terrorism?
68
The Terrorist Threat
72
Pre-empting Terrorists
73
Religious Extremists and Their Effect on Geopolitics
77
Technologies of Surveillance
81
ch. 3
Total Surveillance
85
Counter-Terrorism
85
Putting the Local Citizenry under Surveillance
87
Infiltration
100
Surveillance and Interdiction on the Internet
102
ch. 4
Technology of the Real ID Act
105
What is the Real ID Act?
105
What is a Real ID?
106
Is Real ID an Unfunded Mandate?
108
Timing and Implementation Complications
111
The Race/Ethnicity Field
114
The 2D Barcode and its Security
116
Computers, Databases and Security
121
States' Resistance
126
Increased Scope of Use
131
Possible Role of RFID in Future Real ID Implementations
133
ch. 5
The Real ID Act: Threat To Freedom
135
Insecurities in the Current Implementation
135
The Problem of Privacy in a Surveillance Society
136
We've Got the Wrong Guy
137
Abuse of Trust
140
Abuse of Power
141
Insecurity of Information
142
Government is not the Solution, Government is the Problem
143
Total Surveillance
144
No Need to Disrobe - We'll Save You the Trouble
147
The Rhetoric of the Global War on Terror
156
Epilogue
159
References
161
Index
195