Fighting Terror Online The Convergence of Security, Technology, and
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Martin Charles Golumbic
Fighting Terror Online The Convergence of Security, Technology, and the Law
Martin Charles Golumbic Caesarea Rothschild Institute University of Haifa Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel [email protected]
ISBN: 978-0-387-73577-1
e-ISBN: 978-0-387-73578-8
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Foreword
This book finds 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 legislative attempts. Given the horror of the events and the haste to provide law enforcement agencies with the best tools possible to fight the new threat, policy-makers moved forward without much public discussion. Legislators 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 after 9/11.1 Our concern is that the public’s voice is also needed in this process. Once the sky over Manhattan cleared a bit, it was time for us to take a step back and assess the fallout from that horrific day. As academics who focus on digital law, my colleagues Michael Birnhack and Niva ElkinKoren, focused their attention on examining how the events and the war on terror that followed affected the digital environment, especially the Internet, and what would be their future effects. We decided to explore these issues in a unique academic forum, together with students of the Faculty of Law and co-sponsored by the Caesarea Edmond de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science at the University of Haifa, Israel. A group of 17 outstanding students, some of whom were jointly majoring in law and computer science,
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Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, 2001, Pub. L. No. 107-56, § § 105,
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