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Re: Google Docs illegal in Norway
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:38:20 -0500
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Robert Slade <rmslade () shaw ca> wrote:
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/23463/use-of-google-docs-is-illegal-in-norway/ This is of particular interest to me right at this moment, because I'm in a meeting, and one of our exec has mentioned our files directory. Our site is hosted by Google, and our files are, of course, on Google Docs. ( www.ismsug.org , in case anyone is interested.) However, I've got to say that the only thing that surprises me about "Inspectorate states that the EU-US Safe Harbor agreement does not adequately guarantee data protection in the face of the US Patriot Act. The Patriot Act gives the US government the right and ability to demand personal data on any person anywhere in the world if that data is held anywhere in the world by a US company - such as Google" is that it has taken so long for someone to object. My home province passed legislation a few years back stating that no American company, or company that stores data in the US, can bid on medical info systems. For exactly this reason.
The PATRIOT Act is gestapo legislation - its a subversion of the principals the country was founded upon. The US Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down its provisions as unconstitutional, including the illegal detention of suspects. Only a handful of US politicans had the political courage to vote against it (http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml). The politicians who supported it (including members of the administration who drafted and supported it) should be shipped off to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and held indefinitely. They are a bigger threat to the democracy and the country than any pissed-off Jihadist living in a cave and angry about social injustice. Jeff _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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