Protecting Sensitive Data: The Experience of Russia and the US

... present new challenges for governments. Thus, it has always been a function of the state to ensure security. But the issue of data protection is far more complicated. First, information resources include both infrastructure and content; in fact, one without ... ... terms of granting the government access to confidential information and the giving it the ability to control information (the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001, for example). It was at this time that the U.S. intelligence services were given the technical capabilities ...