The Patriot Act was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law in 2001 to increase the intelligence powers of the government. The aim is to increase security to fight terrorism but many believe it severely invaded privacy and civil rights. This project surveyed students perceptions of the act in its tradeoff between security and privacy. The survey results showed that students mostly thought the act was wrong and objected to it.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Roczniak, Jacob Peter

Subject

• Community
• Security
• Culture

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 03D056I

关键词

• Equality--Social aspects
• Data protection

Advisor

• Higgins, Huong N.

Year

• 2003

Date created

• 2003-01-01

地点

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright