| Fighting Terror Online: The Convergence of Security, Technology, and the Law 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Golumbic, Martin Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0387735771 ISBN-13: 9780387735771 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: The unprecedented events that have taken place in recent years have led legislators and governments throughout the world to reconsider and restructure their policies regarding security issues. Today, worldwide attention is being given to a new security threat, in the form of global terrorism. Legal systems are being called upon to provide a response to these threats, in all areas of life, including the online environment. Among its many tools, global terror also uses advanced technological methods. This fact presents a difficult challenge to policymakers. Therefore, we have chosen to focus this book on the issue of formulating appropriate policy at the interface between security and technology, human rights and economic policy. The fundamental issue ??? the tension between security needs and civil rights ??? is not new. A great deal of experience has been amassed in various countries in this regard, and the question that now arises is whether the existing system of principles and laws, developed on the basis of experience gathered in the ???concrete??? world, is applicable to the ???digital??? environment. This book presents the position that the online environment is a significant and relevant theater of activity in the fight against terror, and will identify the threats, the security needs, and the issues that are unique to this environment. We examine whether the unique characteristics of this environment require new legal solutions, or whether existing solutions are sufficient. Three areas of online activity are identified that require reexamination: security, monitoring, and propaganda. For each of these, we will indicate the issues, examine existing legal arrangements, and offer guidelines for formulating legal policy. There is a demonstrated need to relate to the digital environment as a battlefront, map the new security threats, and thereby hope to provide focus to the pressing discussion on today's legislative and technological agenda. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Terrorism - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Computers | Security - General |
| Dewey: 004 |
| LCCN: 2007936872 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.45" W x 9.41" (0.90 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book ?nds its roots in the horror that engulfed us all around the globe as we experienced and watched with disbelief the events of September 11, 2001. Naturally, policy-makers around the world rushed to examine their law enforcement capabilities and the suitability of these tools to the new war on terror. This examination resulted in a wave of legislation around the world, aimed at increasing the power of law enforcement agencies. The digital environment was a major focus of these regulatory and legis- tive attempts. Given the horror of the events and the haste to provide law enforcement agencies with the best tools possible to ?ght the new threat, policy-makers moved forward without much public discussion. Legis- tors around the world rushed to do the same. No real public debate took place before the USA PATRIOT Act was approved by Congress, 6 weeks 1 after 9/11. Our concern is that the public's voice is also needed in this process. |