I followed the set of cases that attempted to sue under the civil law provisions against wholesale taking of "private" data, namely phone calls. The government succeeded in getting the case tossed on state secret grounds. The civil (and no doubt criminal) penalty is a toothless sop.
The CLOUD act will make work for telecom lawyers as they do the usual shuck and jive of resisting turnover of data before they turn it over.
The bill would strip power away from Congress and the judicial branch, giving Sessions and Pompeo (and future executive branch officials) virtually unchecked authority to negotiate data exchange agreements with foreign nations ...New CLOUD Act, supported by major tech, trusts Sessions and Pompeo to defend our human rights
Thanks. I have never like the cloud idea, seemed to me to be a great way to have your data compromised. Working for EMC, I avoided all cloud projects to the point they would not even try to get me to do them. :-0