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

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 12:29 PM
Subject: CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on
Cross-Border Data
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(again with the moronic cutesy acronyms that Congresscritters so love.
--rick)

The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data
By Camille Fischer
February 8, 2018

This week, Senators Hatch, Graham, Coons, and Whitehouse introduced a bill
that diminishes the data privacy of people around the world.

The Clarifying Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act expands American and
foreign law enforcement’s ability to target and access people’s data across
international borders in two ways. First, the bill creates an explicit
provision for U.S. law enforcement (from a local police department to
federal agents in Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to access “the
contents of a wire or electronic communication and any record or other
information” about a person regardless of where they live or where that
information is located on the globe. In other words, U.S. police could
compel a service provider—like Google, Facebook, or Snapchat—to hand over a
user’s content and metadata, even if it is stored in a foreign country,
without following that foreign country’s privacy laws.[1]

Second, the bill would allow the President to enter into “executive
agreements” with foreign governments that would allow each government to
acquire users’ data stored in the other country, without following each
other’s privacy laws.

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/cloud-act-dangerous-expansion-police-snooping-cross-border-data



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