USA PATRIOT Act

Within less than a week from September 11, 2001, the "American Patriot Act" passed the provision of appropriate means to block and stop terrorism and the "American Patriot Act" was passed in 2001 It was signed in court on 26th October.

The bill extends the authority to oversee and investigate more than 15 different regulations including the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Protection Act (ECPA), Computer Fraud and Misuse Act Prevention Act (CFAA), Foreign Information Monitoring Act (FISA) doing. ), And Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

In addition, the purpose of the American Patriot Act is to update the law on eavesdropping and surveillance in the Internet age, deal with real-time communication and storage communication (e-mail, voicemail) and authorize law enforcement agencies to conduct more property searches It is giving.

President Bush signed the US Patriot Act Re-approval Act, which is different from the original Law Act of March 9, 2006. The sunset on 31 December 2009 was made for Article 215 of the American Patriot Act and is often referred to as "library provision".

The library provides a place to exercise intellectual freedom: free and open knowledge and information exchange. Individuals can exercise the freedom of investigation and the privacy of the information they want. Privacy is essential for freedom of speech, free thinking, and free association. In the library, others should not review or review topics that users are interested in.

ALA believes that certain parts of the American Patriot Act will endanger the constitutional rights and privacy of library users. While the library cooperates with law enforcement agencies to provide specific information on specific customers in order to issue orders in court, library experts believe that some of the provisions of the American Patriot Act are traditional I am concerned that it exceeds the information search method from the library.

For more information on how the US Patriot Act legislation affects intellectual freedom, please see the Office of the Knowledge free web site, especially its privacy and confidentiality section. ALA's resolution on the US Patriot Act and the Library is a useful resource.

Protecting customer privacy and the confidentiality of library records is a long-term and detailed principle for librarians and can guide ALA legislation and policy action on privacy concerns. Freedom of reading is an essentially important part of our initial amendment right and citizen's freedom

These principles are detailed in major resolutions adopted by the ALA, including numerous statements on the US Patriot Act, national security issues, and other federal monitoring and privacy policies. Prior to the Patriot Act, these principles are clarified by existing laws and still exist in the books of 48 states and the District of Columbia to protect the confidentiality of the records of the library. Letters from the Minister of Justice of the other two countries also formulated similar policies. In addition, during the ALA Annual General Meeting held in July 2005, ALA passed a resolution calling on Congress to drop the patriot of the American Patriot Patriarch Act.

The American Patriot Act has been reapproved by three bills. The first one is the 2005 American Patriot and the Anti-Terrorism Reauthorization Act passed by both houses in July 2005. This bill reapproves the provisions of the US Patriot Patents Act and the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. It created new provisions concerning the death penalty for terrorists, strengthening the safety of the port, new measures for financing terrorism, new powers of secret service, the anti-methylamphetamine initiative and other miscellaneous regulations. The second reauthorization law that was first amended and passed in February 2006, the amendment to the revision of the United States Patriot Patriarch Act in 2006

The House of Representatives, the Senate, the Supervision Hearing by the US PATRIOT Act was held. From this week Congress will review several parts of the United States Patriot Act that are controversial and will hold several hearings to give the government greater investigative authority. Many of these conditions will expire at the end of the year unless the administration proposes an extension. Last month, EPIC submitted a FOIA request (pdf) to the FBI asking how government agencies used the expanded search authority under the US Patriot Act sunset rules. (6 April 2005)

In the US Patriot Patents Act, security is the government's top priority. (The US Patriot Act is an abbreviation, the delegation provides the appropriate means necessary to connect and strengthen the United States and to stop and deter terrorism.) Week. It passed almost unanimous voting and the vast majority of objections came from Democrats. Controversial, highly controversial law, the American Patriot Act