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There are tens of thousands of companies in the US which actively provide web-services, and which do not actively go fishing for accounts that may possibly be I
by miracle2k 6y ago
There are tens of thousands of companies in the US which actively provide web-services, and which do not actively go fishing for accounts that may possibly be Iranian. Are they all possibly facing jail time?
Is there a requirement to actively monitor the service for possible Iranians? What kind of actions are required specifically to be safe from jail? Is it a requirement to actively block IPs? Spoiler: These things are not specified.
Maybe we should be angry with the US government for the lack of legal certainty provided to its citizens.
However, given that no one in a situation like Gitlab has been prosecuted, maybe their hands are bound after all.
- whoisjuan 6y agoOmission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_(law) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_(law)) creates the exact same liabilities. It's not about fishing for accounts. Just because you're not being prosecuted, doesn't meant that you don't need to comply with law. For a large company like GitLab is a fiduciary responsibility to do this whether or not they have the federal government telling them to do it at the current time.
- delfinom 6y agoBut on that note, the US government is almost certainly sending all these company a one time warning letter to immediately comply or face jail.