Because of this failure, U.S. and foreign police will have new mechanisms to seize data across the globe. Because of this failure, your private emails, your online chats, your Facebook, Google, Flickr photos, your Snapchat videos, your private lives online, your moments shared digitally between only those you trust, will be open to foreign law enforcement without a warrant and with few restrictions on using and sharing your information. Because of this failure, U.S. laws will be bypassed on U.S. soil.
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.
And, as we wrote before, this is how the CLOUD Act could work in practice:
London investigators want the private Slack messages of a Londoner they suspect of bank fraud. The London police could go directly to Slack, a U.S. company, to request and collect those messages. The London police would not necessarily need prior judicial review for this request. The London police would not be required to notify U.S. law enforcement about this request. The London police would not need a probable cause warrant for this collection.
Predictably, in this request, the London police might also collect Slack messages written by U.S. persons communicating with the Londoner suspected of bank fraud. Those messages could be read, stored, and potentially shared, all without the U.S. person knowing about it. Those messages, if shared with U.S. law enforcement, could be used to criminally charge the U.S. person in a U.S. court, even though a warrant was never issued.
Mason Wright
Why wasn't this shit assblasted everywhere else like when that 'net neutrality' crap was happening? The EFF is far from being ubiased, but a 2,232 page bill is still flabbergasting. I guess that FOSTA bill passed the House also.
Henry Edwards
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Isaac Gutierrez
True, but they're doing a far better job of watching out for this stuff than any of the right-wing sites I view. We focus on petty bullshit, so this easily slides through. Normies were concerned about 'muh facebook data'.
Levi Diaz
This. The EFF, Reddit and a bunch other tech companies came together and made this faggy coalition internetdefenseleague.org/ back on SOPA and never used it again whatsoever
Gabriel Gomez
Ugh. Why does everything on the internet have to be botnet. Why do we let our government give backdoor access for the botnet to others. This is not the future I want, but it's the future I'll get.
Cameron Carter
What does this mean for VPN logs?
If they can request logs, does the company have to corporate and under threat of what penalty?
If they must comply and there is no judge, can they make a constant stream of requests, for example, to live monitor all British i.p. addresses for illegal activity such as file sharing?
Isaiah Carter
How could they do this with their data?
Robert Bennett
Exchange 'cloud' for 'email' if that helps. Or who knows, maybe Zig Forums logs.
Connor Hall
Why do you think the media got as saturated with that net neutrality non-issue as it was? >(((Obama))) passes law, conservatives screech >(((Trump))) repeals law, liberals screech
Welcome to reality.
Hudson Reed
Exchange 'not your computer' with 'email' or maybe use your brain.
Aaron Taylor
Because braindead consumer niggercattle care too much about their Kikebook, Twatter and Snapcunt and don't want to have to choose between that and not being datamined/having their info leaked. With net neutrality, niggercattle care because they want their streamed TV shows and movies on Kikeflix and Hulu to go unthrottled. Also, current proposed laws on net neutrality barely have anything to do with it anymore.
Why stop at "our government"? No government should have any backdoor access to any botnet.
Thomas Reyes
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Brody Turner
good thing that my files are on my home server
Brayden Hall
Don't put WrongThink on the internet mate, use your brain! When are lemmings like you going to die out?
Asher Adams
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Carter Morgan
It's JUST 4d chess, fellow goyim! Trump knows exactly what he's doing.
Because reddit niggers don't care about privacy. All they care about is muh blue midterms
Christian Ross
He was just a minor aide, who had a meltdown on the tv networks a couple weeks ago. He's not even in control of his own drinking habit, and is likely bankrupt.
Michael Jones
There's nothing private about storing something on someone else's computer, retard.
Liam Fisher
NSA has had hardware backdoors into every computer with an Intel chip or Samsung drive on the planet for the past two decades, you can legally watch a porn where all of the actors have spent their entire life under complete government surveillance, so excuse me if I don't take your crocodile tears seriously.
Net Neutrality is good, but the NRG that was spent on Net Neutrality should have been spent on this instead. What a strange (((cohencindence))) that this is JUST mentioned after it's too late. Gee, I wonder why?
I'm trying to help you here. Why do you think httpseverywhere and pgp encryption exist? Anything you upload to (((The Cloud))) you no longer own. There is somehow an implied right to email privacy which never existed. Assume Google and Microsoft are training bots on your spam. If you had a Yahoo email account, the US government already looked at it. Unless you're going through a trusted proxy, anyone high up could easily find where you go on the internet.
Eli Nelson
You are responding with more outrage to an event of insignificant magnitude compared to what has already been happening for decades. This is happening because the media was told by intelligence agencies to convince you that you should be more outraged, and like a brainless retard you have believed them.
Have spies fallen this far? Where you in the past dropped operators off behind enemy lines to assassinate officers with silenced High Standard HDM .22 LR pistols, you now screech CIA NSA OPNIGGERFAGGOT at anons who warn others of your reputation destroying activities? I really can't make up what a travesty it is.
.jpg related is what you where about .webm related is what you became
What are you saying? Yeah. I confused CLOUD with FOSTA. I would rather know how CLOUD is going to cost businesses to adhere to international regulations instead of only following domestic laws and letting the Feds foot the bill.
Evan Hill
Gr8 get m8
Will this kill the cloudnigger trend? And bring back local storage / personal server trends?
Possibly. While US servers get ragged on because of muh NSA, many people from outside the country benefited from greater privacy protections here than in Europe, Asia, or Australia (lol Africa and South America). This CLOUD Act might cause a lot of small-to-medium sized hosting providers to be pushed out by the big boys like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. And since people trust the big boys as much as they trust the NSA, there could very well be a push outside the US to find a better solution to this problem.
Really, this thing can't be good for business in the long run, and all it seems to be is some kind of trade-off; i.e., the Feds get access to international business logs in exchange for foreign governments to get access to our business logs.
Jeremiah Wilson
what is local storage trends? we can and have already used local storage from the beginning. any "trend" version of this is just going to be some corporate botnet garbage full of security vulns
Aaron Clark
user probably meant local NAS. I am concerned about Apple and Google having their cloud services storing local pictures and videos that mobile users capture in real-time.
Which was always retarded, because there are Constitutional limits on NSA operations in the US. Do they push those limits and sometimes break them? Yeah, the Snowden documents showed that. But the NSA can--and does--operate with impunity abroad. That's their fucking job. The NSA is balls deep in every network in Europe, for example, including in Switzerland. But muh Protonmail. Right.
As per our customs, you must commit ritual suicide by bleach.
Xavier Scott
Someone have the .gif of the Jewish 'murican politician Diane Feinstein doing the full merchant after getting Trump to go after guns? 't would be appropriate.
