Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
1
Legislation in the 113th or 114th Congress Proposing Limits on Surveillance
A Bill to Improve the Operation of the Department of Homeland Securitys Unmanned Aircraft System
Program (S 159, 114th Congress) Arizona Senator John McCain introduced this bill requiring the
Department of Homeland Security to fully utilize surveillance and detection capabilities developed or
used by the various Federal departments and agencies for the purpose of enhancing the functioning and
operational capability to conduct continuous and integrated manned or unmanned, monitoring, sensing,
or surveillance of 100 percent of Southern border mileage or the immediate vicinity of the Southern
border.
American Privacy Protection Act (HR 3920, 113th Congress) This bill, sponsored by Florida Representative
Richard Nugent, would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), with respect
to the authority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to make an application to a FISA court for
an order requiring the production of tangible things (commonly referred to as "business records"), to
limit the items that the FBI may seek to tangible things not pertaining to a U.S. person for an
investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a U.S. person (thus removes the
FBI's authority to make such applications for an investigation regarding a U.S. person or to protect
against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities).
Big Brother Is Not Watching You Act (HR 3883, 113th Congress) Representative Alan Grayson of Florida
introduced this bill requiring the President and all executive departments and independent agencies to
take all actions, including rulemaking, needed to implement the 46 recommendations of the report
entitled "Liberty and Security in a Changing World," issued on December 12, 2013, by the President's
Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies.
Civil Liberties Protection Act (S 2093, 113th Congress) Montana Senator John Walsh introduced this
legislation that would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to modify the
purposes for which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is authorized to apply to a FISA court for
an order requiring the production of tangible things (commonly referred to as "business records").
Civilian Contractors Engaged in Intelligence Activities Reduction Act of 2015 (HR 65, 114 th Congress)
This bill, introduced by Texas Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, would require the Director of
National Intelligence to submit a plan for reducing by 25% the number of intelligence community
contractors with top security clearances that are engaged in intelligence activities.
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (HR 234, 114th Congress) Maryland Representative C.A.
(Dutch) Ruppersberger introduced this bill directing the federal government to conduct cybersecurity
activities designed to provide shared situational awareness enabling integrated operational actions to
protect, prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents.
Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2015 (S 177) Florida Senator Bill Nelson introduced this bill
requiring the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate regulations requiring commercial
entities, nonprofit and for-profit corporations, estates, trusts, cooperatives and other specified entities
that own or possess data containing personal information (covered entities), or that contract to have a
third-party maintain or process such data for the entity, to implement information security policies and
procedures for the treatment and protection of personal information.
Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act of 2015. (HR 1229, 114th Congress): Rep. Peter Welch (VT).
Prohibits a governmental entity from using a drone system, or requesting information or data collected
by another entity through use of a drone system, for protective activities, or for law enforcement or
intelligence purposes, except pursuant to a warrant issued using the procedures described in the
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (or, in the case of a state court, issued using state warrant
procedures) by a court of competent jurisdiction, or as permitted under the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978. Makes an exception to this prohibition in exigent circumstances when a law
enforcement entity reasonably believes there is: (1) an imminent danger of death or serious physical
injury; or (2) a high risk of an imminent terrorist attack by a specific individual or organization,
according to the Secretary of Homeland Security.