The CLOUD Act By Rowan Love
Photo Credit: The Electronic Frontier Foundation Sent By: Rowen Love Original Author : Jullian Assange The CLOUD Act The CLOUD Act will also allow the U.S. to enter into agreements that allow the transfer of private data from domestic servers to investigators in other countries on a case-by-case basis, further globalizing the ever-encroaching surveillance state. The Electronic Frontier Foundation , which has strongly opposed the legislation, listed several consequences of the bill, which it called “ far-reaching ” and “ privacy-upending ”: 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 Sta...