espionage

Examples of espionage in the following topics:

• Civil Liberties in Wartime

  • Congress used the Espionage and Sedition Acts to stamp out war opposition by curbing civil liberties.
  • The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 temporarily trumped Americans' rights to religious freedom and to freely speak, publish, or petition the government.
  • The Espionage Act made it a crime to pass information with the intent of harming the success of American armed forces.
  • Supreme Court upheld the Espionage and Sedition Acts in the 1919 case, Abrams v.
  • Critique the Alien, Sedition, and Espionage Acts in terms of their effects on civil liberties.

• Providing National Security

  • ensuring the resilience and redundancy of critical infrastructure; using intelligence services to detect and defeat or avoid threats and espionage, and to protect classified information;

• McCarthyism

  • The following year also saw several significant developments regarding Soviet Cold War espionage activities.
  • In general, the vaguely defined danger of "Communist influence" was a more common theme in the rhetoric of anti-Communist politicians than was espionage or any other specific activity.
  • The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1950 to 1956 and characterized by heightened fears of communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents.
  • Joseph McCarthy, Republican Senator from Wisconsin gained sudden prominence for his dramatic accusations of Communist espionage and influence inside the U.S. government.

• New Media

  • New media has also recently become of interest to the global espionage community as it is easily accessible electronically in database format and can therefore be quickly retrieved and reverse engineered by national governments.
  • Particularly of interest to the espionage community are Facebook and Twitter, two sites where individuals freely divulge personal information that can then be sifted through and archived for the automatic creation of dossiers on both people of interest and the average citizen.

• The Socialist Presence

  • In response, President Wilson signed the Espionage Act in June 1917.
  • In 1917, President Wilson signed the Espionage Act, which targeted Socialists who advocated draft-dodging

• The Death Penality

  • In most places that practice capital punishment, it is reserved for murder, espionage, treason, or as part of military justice.

• Monitoring Competition

  • Competitive intelligence is an ethical and legal business practice, as opposed to industrial espionage which is illegal.

• Freedom of the Press

  • The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 imposed restrictions on free press during wartime.

• Freedom of Assembly and Petition

  • During World War I, individuals petitioning for the repeal of sedition and espionage laws were punished—again, the Supreme Court did not rule on the matter.

• The Purpose of Public Relations

  • Unlike regular services in public relations, those in negative public relations rely on the development of industries such as IT security, industrial espionage, social engineering, and competitive intelligence.