Patriot act affecting colleges
Looking in to how the Patriot act affects students in college campuses, I ran in to an article put by the American Librery Association that went over the issues. It was quite interesting how much of our private records could be obtained by the FBI.
According to the report, over 200 collages have turned in student information that include personal field of study, activities, attendance, medical records among other personal information to the FBI, INS or government officials. Students and faculty can be under surveillance when using e-mail and Internet communications, purchasing books or using the library.
One of the parts of this article that I find may affect me as a student and Journalist in training is how The Patriot Act may suppress me from academic freedom. According to the article “the government or universities may institute policies that prohibit the research and writing around certain topic areas in the interest of “national security.”” This means that if I was to do research from the school library a related topic for a academic paper, or a story for the school newspaper, I could be restricted from doing so.
According to James O’Neill of Dallas Morning News, in 2004 the United States Justice Department asked the Federal communications Commission to reinterpret a 1994 law to make it easier for federal officials to wiretap Internet-based communication. After the FCC complied each university would spend millions of dollars to be able to look into faculty and students e-mail and web-based communication, the article said.
It is important that students are aware of the issue, to see other issues schools face please click on the links below.
Patriot Act on college campuses
According to the report, over 200 collages have turned in student information that include personal field of study, activities, attendance, medical records among other personal information to the FBI, INS or government officials. Students and faculty can be under surveillance when using e-mail and Internet communications, purchasing books or using the library.
One of the parts of this article that I find may affect me as a student and Journalist in training is how The Patriot Act may suppress me from academic freedom. According to the article “the government or universities may institute policies that prohibit the research and writing around certain topic areas in the interest of “national security.”” This means that if I was to do research from the school library a related topic for a academic paper, or a story for the school newspaper, I could be restricted from doing so.
According to James O’Neill of Dallas Morning News, in 2004 the United States Justice Department asked the Federal communications Commission to reinterpret a 1994 law to make it easier for federal officials to wiretap Internet-based communication. After the FCC complied each university would spend millions of dollars to be able to look into faculty and students e-mail and web-based communication, the article said.
It is important that students are aware of the issue, to see other issues schools face please click on the links below.
Patriot Act on college campuses
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