{"id":32844,"date":"2018-03-27T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32844"},"modified":"2018-03-27T16:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T21:35:42","slug":"the-us-government-just-destroyed-our-privacy-while-nobody-was-paying-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32844","title":{"rendered":"The US Government Just Destroyed Our Privacy While Nobody Was Paying Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US Government Just Destroyed Our Privacy While Nobody Was Paying Attention<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 While the nation remained fixated on gun control and Facebook\u2019s violative practices last week, the U.S. government quietly codified the CLOUD Act, its own\u00a0intrusive policies on citizens\u2019 data.<\/p>\n

While the massive, $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill passed Friday received widespread media attention, the CLOUD Act \u2014 which lawmakers snuck into the end of the 2,300-page bill \u2014 was hardly addressed.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act<\/a>\u00a0(CLOUD)\u00a0\u201cupdates the rules for criminal investigators who want to see emails, documents and other communications stored on the internet,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0CNET<\/i>\u00a0reported<\/a>. \u201cNow law enforcement won\u2019t be blocked from accessing someone\u2019s Outlook account, for example, just because Microsoft happens to store the user\u2019s email\u00a0<\/i>on servers in Ireland<\/i><\/a>.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

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,\u00a0listed<\/a>\u00a0several consequences of the bill, which it called \u201cfar-reaching\u201d and \u201cprivacy-upending\u201d:<\/p>\n