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Responsibility Deflected, the CLOUD Act Passes

posted by janrinok on Monday March 26 2018, @11:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the does-any-other-nation-do-this? dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

UPDATE, March 23, 2018: President Donald Trump signed the $1.3 trillion government spending bill—which includes the CLOUD Act—into law Friday morning.

"People deserve the right to a better process." Those are the words of Jim McGovern, representative for Massachusetts and member of the House of Representatives Committee on Rules, when, after 8:00 PM EST on Wednesday, he and his colleagues were handed a 2,232-page bill to review and approve for a floor vote by the next morning.

In the final pages of the bill—meant only to appropriate future government spending—lawmakers snuck in a separate piece of legislation that made no mention of funds, salaries, or budget cuts. Instead, this final, tacked-on piece of legislation will erode privacy protections around the globe.

[...] As we wrote before, the CLOUD Act is a far-reaching, privacy-upending piece of legislation that will:

  • Enable foreign police to collect and wiretap people's communications from U.S. companies, without obtaining a U.S. warrant.
  • Allow foreign nations to demand personal data stored in the United States, without prior review by a judge.
  • Allow the U.S. president to enter "executive agreements" that empower police in foreign nations that have weaker privacy laws than the United States to seize data in the United States while ignoring U.S. privacy laws.
  • Allow foreign police to collect someone's data without notifying them about it.
  • Empower U.S. police to grab any data, regardless if it's a U.S. person's or not, no matter where it is stored.

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/responsibility-deflected-cloud-act-passes

See also: As the CLOUD Act sneaks into the omnibus, big tech butts heads with privacy advocates

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday March 26 2018, @11:24PM (5 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday March 26 2018, @11:24PM (#658704) Homepage Journal

    The Communists set the Reichstag fire.

    A great many brave Russians died when their barracks was blown to bits. Perhaps it was terrorism - I don't clearly recall.

    What horrible crime - O won't somebody think of the children? - will convince the public to support Trump when he declares martial law?

    While Trump is the military's Commander-in-Chief, every service member is sworn to uphold the Constitution.

    Most of the military is Republican, but I don't think they are part of Trump's base.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:32PM (#658706)

    Don't you nut cases ever tire of your fanciful what ifs?

    "It's time for the revolution because I think Trump will invoke martial law to stay in power and the military will go right along with that."

    Jesus, does it ever get old.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:39PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:39PM (#658708)

    "Most of the military is Republican, but I don't think they are part of Trump's base."

    Obviously you don't "think" much, period.

    Not only are you paranoid, but you are one stupid childish fool.

    Do us all a favor and shut the fuck up. Go suck cock or something, just quit posting your moronic bullshit.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:55PM (#658711)

      See that "Disagree" mod? Use it or not, but stop spewing insults.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by tftp on Tuesday March 27 2018, @12:08AM (1 child)

    by tftp (806) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @12:08AM (#658715) Homepage

    The theory of Van der Lubbe being a lone arsonist is being questioned:

    New work by Bahar and Kugel, as of 2001, has revived the theory that the Nazis were behind the fire. It uses Gestapo archives held in Moscow and available to researchers only since 1990. They argue that the fire was almost certainly started by the Nazis, based on the wealth of circumstantial evidence provided by the archival material. They say that a commando group of at least three and at most ten SA men, led by Hans Georg Gewehr, set the fire using self-lighting incendiaries, and that Van der Lubbe was brought to the scene later.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday March 27 2018, @08:21PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @08:21PM (#659137)

      Shocking! Keep in mind these are the same guys that started WWII by staging a false-flag operation [wikipedia.org] claiming that Poland was attacking them.

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