CLOUD Act

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The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data

This week, Senators Hatch, Graham, Coons, and Whitehouse introduced a bill that diminishes the data privacy of people around the world.The Clarifying Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act expands American and foreign law enforcement’s ability to target and access people’s data across international...

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Responsibility Deflected, the CLOUD Act Passes

UPDATE, March 23, 2018: President Donald Trump signed the $1.3 trillion government spending bill—which includes the CLOUD Act—into law Friday morning. “People deserve the right to a better process.”Those are the words of Jim McGovern, representative for Massachusetts and member of the House of...

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PI response to confused governments’ confusing declaration of war and victory on encryption

Today’s announcement regarding the UK and US agreement signed pursuant to the US CLOUD Act is being touted on both sides of the Atlantic as a major victory for law enforcement and security. But it is a step backward for privacy.

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The CLOUD Act got passed a couple of years ago by being bundled with the government funding bill, much to the chagrin of civil liberties advocates.

The U.S. has been making deals with the U.K. and Australia lately which allow their police to request data from U.S. companies, including for things which are not illegal in both countries (PI has an article on this which I currently cannot locate), but are in one, and with looser standards than would normally be allowed in the U.S. (requiring narrowly tailored warrants).

Australia's anti-encryption laws being used to bypass journalist protections, expert says

New legislation has given AFP ‘power to strike a chilling blow against press freedom’, cybersecurity researcher tells parliamentary review

www.theguardian.com

I don't really trust Australia with these sorts of powers as they have already used recently passed anti-encryption powers to harass journalists who speak critically about the government.