Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
by superkuh on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:38PM
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Not only can we, but now with the CLOUD Act passed as a rider to the budget bill those countries have even more options since the law 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.
Unfortunately we can, we do, and we will continue to, unless we make it more expensive for companies to submit to than to oppose such forces.
Given the role money plays in our legislative process, I think we will be seeing more of this.