The Cloud Act and Trump

[bluechinagroup]

So how do the Trump voters on here feel about the reality that Trump signed one of the most privacy unfriendly extra-jurisdictional laws yet that wasn't even properly vetted by anyone in the legislature due to it being a rider bill?

This new law will allow US law enforcement to issue world wide orders that compels tech companies to turn over any data on any person of interest even if that tech company is a foreign entity and has all of that data on a foreign server.

See: The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Responsibility Deflected, the CLOUD Act Passes | Electronic Frontier Foundation

So much for Trump running the USA into the ground and causing a reboot. The US seems to be as Statist as ever.

 

[bluechinagroup]

A New Backdoor Around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act | Electronic Frontier Foundation

This law also allows foreign law enforcement to demand data from US tech firms without a warrant or any sort of judicial review or protections from the 4th amendment.

 

[mituozo]

Things are worse than they've ever been, when it comes to privacy, surveillance, etc. There's no escaping it. If they want you, they'll get you.

 

[Citation]

Things are worse than they've ever been, when it comes to privacy, surveillance, etc. There's no escaping it.

Sadly, this is true. In today's world, de facto, security trumps (no pun intended) right to privacy.