A New Backdoor Around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act

Electronic Frontier Foundation ^ | 3/11/2018 | David Ruiz

[nevadapatriot]

There’s a new, proposed backdoor to our data, which would bypass our Fourth Amendment protections to communications privacy. It is built into a dangerous bill called the CLOUD Act, which would allow police at home and abroad to seize cross-border data without following the privacy rules where the data is stored.

This backdoor is an insidious method for accessing our emails, our chat logs, our online videos and photos, and our private moments shared online between one another. This backdoor would deny us meaningful judicial review and the privacy protections embedded in our Constitution.

This new backdoor for cross-border data mirrors another backdoor under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, an invasive NSA surveillance authority for foreign intelligence gathering. That law, recently reauthorized and expanded by Congress for another six years, gives U.S. intelligence agencies, including the NSA, FBI, and CIA, the ability to search, read, and share our private electronic messages without first obtaining a warrant.

The new backdoor in the CLOUD Act operates much in the same way. U.S. police could obtain Americans’ data, and use it against them, without complying with the Fourth Amendment.

For this reason, and many more, EFF strongly opposes the CLOUD Act.

[Zathras]

This is REALLY BIG.
All creepers need to consider moving to Proton Mail.
Google, Outlook and Yahoo are no longer safe.

This sounds like something McCain and his people stuffed into the law to get around Apple security.

[Kalamata]

>>Where have all the Statesmen gone?
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The rich globalists offered them a more lucrative deal than We the People.