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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by itake on Sunday June 19, 2022 @11:23AM (#31800237)
My understanding of privacy international privacy stuff is if a European gov wants to spy on their own citizens, but the law prevents them, they phone up the USA and have the USA do the spying(hacking?) and get the data from them.

European countries do the same for USA gov on US citizens.

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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by judge2020 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @11:25AM (#31800255)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes?wprov=sfti1

In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US and the packets never leave the US.

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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by youngtaff on Sunday June 19, 2022 @11:46AM (#31800402)
But if you arrange for the packets to be routed outside the US and then back all sorts of possibilities open up
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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by patrec on Sunday June 19, 2022 @01:50PM (#31801618)
> In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US

And no doubt it must be even more illegal to then perjure yourself in front of congress about not having engaged in such illegal spying, when in fact you have.

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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by pdimitar on Sunday June 19, 2022 @12:13PM (#31800656)
As if anyone have ever proven that those laws were broken -- which we know they were -- let alone ever get convicted of it.

These laws are a formality and have no teeth.

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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by ajsnigrutin on Sunday June 19, 2022 @01:19PM (#31801312)
Yep, that's why they "coincidentally" do a traffic stop, and find stuff "by accident".
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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by DocTomoe on Sunday June 19, 2022 @12:09PM (#31800624)
And, who ever got executed for spying domestically? Who ever got a prison sentence in line with the rough prison sentences the US happily gives out for much lesser offenses? Wo ever got so much as a bad performance review?

Noone? Why am I not surprised?

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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by the_only_law on Sunday June 19, 2022 @12:11PM (#31800644)
Illegal things are ok if they involve "national security" or are useful for cold war dick measuring.
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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by DocTomoe on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:54PM (#31802225)
In countries that follow the rule of law, they are not.
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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by kube-system on Sunday June 19, 2022 @12:44PM (#31800942)
Who has been executed for violating GDPR?

Laws can be enforced without executing people.

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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by DocTomoe on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:54PM (#31802222)
That's why I gave two "lesser punishments", which also are apparently not used.
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Re:Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for ... by 6510 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:22PM (#31801908)
More interesting : Anyone outside the US is fair game. Anything goes - by law.
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