The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data

by tb21666

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Now it'll be legal to do what they've already been doing for years.

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For example, because U.S.-based companies host and carry much of the world’s Internet traffic, a foreign country that enters one of these executive agreements with the U.S. to could potentially wiretap people located anywhere on the globe ( so long as the target of the wiretap is not a U.S. person or located in the United States ) without the procedural safeguards of U.S. law typically given to data stored in the United States, such as a warrant, or even notice to the U.S. government. This is an enormous erosion of current data privacy laws.

I'm surprised it hasn't always been this way. I honestly thought it was.