1. Monica Sowell EDCI 588 11 Jul 14

2. Content Vocabulary History Current Legislation USA PATRIOT Act Resources

3. Vocabulary Wiretapping Bug Pen register Trap and trace device Roving Wiretaps

4. History Wiretapping has occurred since the 1890s when the telephone was invented. Considered to be a felony by 1892 in New York State Used to catch bootleggers during prohibition In 1934, US Congress passed the Federal Communications Act

5. History (con’t) After WWII, the FBI continued to secretly wiretap government officials Operation Shamrock, operated by the NSA 1952- 1975 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 1978 (FISA) Carnivore system developed in the late 1990s to monitor Internet traffic

6. Current Legislation Title III Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Stored Communications Act Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act

7. USA PATRIOT Act Passed by Congress October 26, 2001 Allows for law enforcement action to protect Americans from global terrorist network (USDOJ) 4 principal provisional categories (Quinn 283) – 3 provisions must be renewed and signed back into law periodically (Quinn 287)

8. Resources Aftergood, S. (February 7, 2014). Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Retrieved July 11, 2014 from http://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/ Quinn, M. (2013). Ethics for the Information Age. (5th Edition). Boston: Pearson US Department of Justice. (n.d.). What is the USA PATRIOT. Retrieved July 11, 2014 from http://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/highlights.htm