Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage Laws

Re:Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage... by Sacho on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @04:13AM (#15345785)

> 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.

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Re:Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage... by int_19h on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @05:08AM (#15346048)

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.

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