cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54518698

Patriot Act Titles

• Title I: Enhancing Domestic Security against Terrorism
• Title II: Enhanced Surveillance Procedures
• Title III:
  • International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-terrorist Financing Act of 2001
  • Bank Secrecy Act Amendments and Related Improvements
• Title IV: Protecting the border
• Title V: Removing obstacles to investigating terrorism
• Title VI: Providing for victims of terrorism, public safety officers and their families
• Title VII: Increased information sharing for critical infrastructure protection
• Title VIII: Strengthening the criminal laws against terrorism
• Title IX: Improved intelligence
• Title X: Miscellaneous

See also:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Patriot_Act
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_invocations_of_the_Patriot_Act
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-terrorism,_Crime_and_Security_Act_2001 - similar law passed in the UK the following month
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act - followup passed by Obama in 2015 to make permanent some aspects of PATRIOT which were due to sunset