U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrants on Internet Firms

Re:U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrant... by krapp on Saturday July 16, 2016 @05:31PM (#12107954)

    Under the proposed agreements described by Mr. Wiegmann, 
    foreign investigators would be able to serve a warrant 
    directly on a U.S. firm to see a suspect’s stored emails
    or intercept their messages in real time, as long as the
    surveillance didn’t involve U.S. citizens or residents.

    Such deals would also give U.S. investigators reciprocal
    authority to search data in other countries.

Why does this seem like they're trying to 'legitimize' something that's probably been done in secret for years?

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Re:U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrant... by fweespeech on Saturday July 16, 2016 @06:42PM (#12108159)

> Why does this seem like they're trying to 'legitimize' something that's probably been done in secret for years?

Because that is exactly what they are doing based on what Snowden said?

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Re:U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrant... by aleh on Sunday July 17, 2016 @04:29AM (#12109476)

Perhaps since this practice got exposed, other countries became less willing to cooperate. With such a treaty in place it will be more difficult to say no.

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