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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Land of freedom or land of surveillance? Right to privacy in the U.S. after 9/11
  • Privacy and surveillance
  • What is the right to privacy
  • Rights of the government vs. rights of the governed
  • Surveillance
  • Historical development of surveillance legislation
  • Legal context of the current surveillance issues
  • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
  • United States Patriot Act
  • Section 218
  • PRISM and upstream acquisition of Internet communications
  • Bulk collection of telephony metadata program
  • Challenges of Pandora's Box
  • Pendulum effect: back to land of freedom
  • Exploitation of the collected data
  • III. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in U.S. National Security Policy: New Face of War on Terror
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles
  • Definitions
  • History
  • Unmanned aircraft in the military
  • Significant manufacturers
  • Cost-efficiency
  • Limitations to the use of UAVs in the war on terror
  • Legal issues
  • Collateral damage
  • Principles of foreign policy
  • Media coverage
  • Public opinion
  • Public polls
  • Technical, tactical, and operational challenges
  • UAVs in the war on terror
  • Somalia
  • Yemen
  • Afghanistan
  • Pakistan
  • Iraq
  • Revolution in military affairs
  • Theoretical concepts, definitions, schools
  • Warrior ethos and just war
  • IV. Conclusion
  • V. Bibliography