Trump signs executive order stripping non-citizens of privacy rights

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: January 27, 2017 at 8:27:54 AM EST
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Trump signs executive order stripping non-citizens of privacy rights
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> [Note:  This item comes from friend Bob Frankston.  DLH]
>
> Trump signs executive order stripping non-citizens of privacy rights
> The six month-old Data Shield agreement between the US and EU is now in jeopardy.
> By Andrew Tarantola
> Jan 26 2017
> <https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/26/trump-signs-executive-order-stripping-non-citizens-of-privacy-ri/>
>
> The US-EU Data Shield agreement is an authorization framework which enables companies to transfer the personal data 
> of Europeans to the US while ensuring that the companies operate within compliance of Europe's more stringent privacy 
> laws. It effectively ensured that a European's personal data -- that is, any personal data originating from the EU, 
> not just that of EU citizens -- would be protected to the standards that the EU demands whether the data is sitting 
> on a server in Paris, France or Paris, Texas.
>
> More than 1,500 companies including Apple, Google and Microsoft had agreed to abide by the Data Shield agreement, 
> which requires the US Department of Commerce to ensure that American companies are operating in compliance. It took 
> the place of the earlier Safe Harbor agreement, which the European Court of Justice ruled ineffective and invalid 
> after the Snowden leaks came to light in 2013.
>
> This agreement -- as well as the legal ability for US companies to serve European customers -- in now in very real 
> danger of unravelling. And it's all thanks to an Executive Order that Trump signed earlier this week. Specifically, 
> it's Section 14, which reads:
>
> Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure that their privacy policies exclude 
> persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent residents from the protections of the Privacy Act 
> regarding personally identifiable information.
>
> Enforcing privacy policies that specifically "exclude persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent 
> residents," while aimed at enhancing domestic immigration laws, effectively invalidates America's part of the Data 
> Shield agreement, opens the current administration up to sanctions by the EU and could lead our allies across the 
> Atlantic to suspend the agreement outright.
>
> [snip]
>
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