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

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: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:48PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:48PM (#659114)

    You really are a retard aren't ya.

    Given that the NRA spends large sums every election cycle...

    That ain't real money. The NRA's whole budget ain't real money. You want to see real money in politics, look at how much the NEA or Planned Parenthood dump. The fear of the NRA comes from millions of paying members and millions more who closely watch their scorecards who become single issue voters anytime the 2nd Amendment is under threat. And there is nothing sinister about the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the county doing what it was founded to do.

    The second amendment isn't under siege, nor is the evil gub'mint trying to "take away your guns."

    You picked the wrong day for repeating that lie. Former SCOTUS Justice Stevens has an op-ed today calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment. Stupid senile old fool doesn't realize it would do nothing. Our Right to Keep and Bear Arms doesn't come from the 2nd Amendment, it is one of the organizational ideas that America operates on, it predates the Constitution and would exist exactly unchanged without it, as it did before the Bill of Rights was adopted. Infringing those inalienable rights would put a moral duty on every loyal American to resist the attempt by any means up to and including another Revolution.

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