Computer Science

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The paper presents the three Acts that provide information on the development of computer security from the internal federal perspective and also in the modern advent of the growing public sector of law pertaining to the World Wide Web. The paper explains that by protecting both private and government computers in modern times, one can realize the breadth and scope of law that controls information and technological advances in the constantly developing legal climate of the past, present and future.

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"This computer science study will examine the regulatory and legal apparatus of the American government enacts to enforce computer security. By analyzing such laws as the Computer Security Act of 1987, Government Information Security Reform Act of 2000 and the Information Technology Reform Act of 1996 in relation to computer security through government regulation. By analyzing these Acts, one can realize the protections that computer based information and documentation that is protected on the World Wide Web. The Computer Security Act, voted through Congress in 1987, reflects the growing and changing world of technology, which has been regulated through government interaction. The origins of the Act reflect the concern of intelligence information through internal computers, which was being processed through computer systems in the 1980s (Computer Security Act, Section 3 (6)b)."

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