Contains twenty-seven articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to privacy, addressing questions about counterterrorism measures and privacy rights, whether technological developments threaten privacy, medical privacy protections, and how privacy should be protected.
Explores the complicated legal issues related to Americans' right to privacy, discussing how those rights have changed since September 11, 2001 and profiling defining moments, debates, events, and court cases.
Summaries of actual case histories and court decisions in the areas of law enforcement, sexuality, reproduction, dying, the press, voyeurism, problems in the workplace, and freedom of information which have a direct bearing on personal privacy.
Explores the creation of the Patriot Act and the debate about whether or not it violates laws concerning citizens' privacy. Includes full-color photographs, a timeline, a glossary, and further reading sources.
Discusses the meaning of a digital footprint, or online identity, and such things as personal communication and privicy issues, and the social effects that electronic communication can have on the users of this technology.
Examines the 2001 terrorist attacks in America, and discusses the nation's privacy laws in comparison with the measures that have been taken to ensure national security such as the Patriot Act, surveillance, and the loss of some civil liberties.
Introduces students to the controversy over whether or not Americans have a right to basic privacies and whether or not the government can infringe on people's privacy in the name of national security, examining both sides of the argument and providing information to support both viewpoints.
This guide to safe online gaming is a valuable resource for any teen gamer, as well as his or her parents. Written by a gaming blogger and longtime game enthusiast, it covers all of the bases of gaming safety.
Provides information about the Bill of Rights, focusing on the Fourth Amendment which addresses searches and seizures and warrants, discussing why the Constitution and Bill of Rights are needed, how they were developed, and how the interpretation of the Constitution has changed since it was first ratified.
