Yet the Safeguard Program was only operational for less than a year in the mid-1970s before the Defense Department, concerned about the program's cost and effectiveness, pulled the plug.
As Ms Shafak summarises, "the state is privileged, all-powerful and yet paradoxically safeguarded as if it were a fragile entity in need of protection".
Yet, the safeguards to ensure this technology is being used fairly and responsibly appear to be virtually nonexistent," the organizations wrote in a letter to the civil rights department of the Justice Department.
In the latest attack on existing safeguards, the Interior Department is quietly gutting yet another legal safeguard against the wholesale pollution and burial of streams in Appalachia by the strip-mining industry.
Han Xudong, an army colonel and a professor at National Defense University, wrote in Outlook, a policy magazine, that "China's comprehensive national strength, especially in military capabilities, is not yet enough to safeguard all of the core national interests.
Yet despite the safeguards, the menace seems to grow.
Yet despite these safeguards, many Ugandans continue to live in abject poverty, while certain purported "saviours" exploit the poor as the government looks on.
Either they are taking excellent action in secret, or these high-status brands don't yet have the safeguards in place to reassure their customers, and appear to be falling behind their competitors," said Phil Bloomer, executive director of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.
Exchange-traded companies certainly have defrauded investors despite these safeguards, yet Bernstein argues that the absence of such strictures makes foul deeds easier to commit.
Yet, the need to safeguard public health must be emphasised and the terms of such partnerships critically evaluated and monitored.
