Re:Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage...
by Sacho on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @04:13AM
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> it's going to be challenged in courts etc
How are those challenges going? Any courts out there overruling FISC?
> In Russia, there's a public law that mandates ISPs to install surveillance equipment that federal law enforcement agency can use basically at will
It's public law that created FISC(FISA @ 1978) and it's public law(Patriot Act, third party doctrine) that gave them the power to authorize the NSA's surveillance.
Re:Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage...
by int_19h on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @05:08AM
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Well, last time this came up, we did get legislation that did something. Not anywhere as much as it should have, but there's that, at least.
Ditto FISC - it might be rubber-stamped warrants, but at least there's a warrant, by an actual judge.
The practical degree of Internet surveillance, and, - especially! - censorship is still vastly lower in US than it is in Russia.
In Russia, there's a public law that mandates ISPs to install surveillance equipment that federal law enforcement agency can use basically at will (for now, they still need technically warrants, although in practice it's impossible to enforce; next year, a new law comes into force that removes the requirement for a warrant). And another public law, which requires ISPs to block websites according to a list that is maintained by the government.