Under Obama, Patriot Act Sneak-and-Peek Outpaces Bush Use (and is mostly about Drugs) How the Patriot Act stripped me of my free-speech rights. A decade later, much of the government’s surveillance policy remains shrouded in secrecy, making it impossible for the American public to engage in a meaningful debate on the effectiveness or wisdom of various practices. The government has used NSLs to collect private information on hundreds of thousands of people. I am the only person from the telecommunications industry who received one to ever challenge in court the legality of the warrantless NSL searches and the associated gag order and to be subsequently (partially) un-gagged. In 2004, it wasn’t at all clear whether the FBI would charge me with a crime for telling the ACLU about the letter, or for telling the court clerk about it when I filed my lawsuit as “John Doe.” I was unable to tell my family, friends, colleagues or my company’s clients, and I had to lie about where I was going when I visited my attorneys.
Post details: CA3: FISA surveillance led to domestic prosecution, and Patriot Act amendments not unconstitutional; even if they were, Krull wouldn't require exclusion. PATRIOT Act. How the Patriot Act stripped me of my free-speech rights. PATRIOT Act clouds picture for tech - David Saleh Rauf. Cloud computing is a gold mine for the U.S. tech industry, but American firms are encountering resistance from an unexpected enemy overseas: the PATRIOT Act.
The Sept. 11-era law was supposed to help the intelligence community gather data on suspected terrorists. But competitors overseas are using it as a way to discourage foreign countries from signing on with U.S. cloud computing providers like Google and Microsoft: Put your data on a U.S. -based cloud, they warn, and you may just put it in the hands of the U.S. government. Continue Reading “The PATRIOT Act has come to be a kind of label for this set of concerns,” Ambassador Philip Verveer, U.S. coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy at the State Department, told POLITICO. “We think, to some extent, it’s taking advantage of a misperception, and we’d like to clear up that misperception.” Summary: ZDNet's USA PATRIOT Act series. This executive summary recaps a series of posts and a year's worth of research on how the USA PATRIOT ACT impacts cross-border clouds, and considers whether data is safe from the risk of interception or unwarranted searches by U.S. authorities; even European protected data.
Although this is a U.S. -oriented site and I am a British citizen, the issues I surface here affect all readers, whether living and working inside or outside the United States. In short: U.S. law enforcement could use the USA PATRIOT Act on a U.S. -based organisation -- like Microsoft, Google, Intel or Amazon, for example -- to force its local subsidiary companies across the world into handing over user data to U.S. authorities. EU data once may have 'had to stay in Europe', but this is on the most part untrue. U.S. corporations survive by having subsidiary or smaller companies in foreign locations, to communicate and collaborate with their clients on the ground in their locale.
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