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My understanding of privacy international privacy stuff is if a European gov wants to spy on their own citizens, but the law prevents them, they phone up the US
by itake 4y ago
My understanding of privacy international privacy stuff is if a European gov wants to spy on their own citizens, but the law prevents them, they phone up the USA and have the USA do the spying(hacking?) and get the data from them.
European countries do the same for USA gov on US citizens.
- judge2020 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes?wprov=sfti1 In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US and the packets never leave the US.
- patrec 4y ago> In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US And no doubt it must be even more illegal to then perjure yourself in front of congress about not having engaged in such illegal spying, when in fact you have.
- youngtaff 4y agoBut if you arrange for the packets to be routed outside the US and then back all sorts of possibilities open up
- DocTomoe 4y agoAnd, who ever got executed for spying domestically? Who ever got a prison sentence in line with the rough prison sentences the US happily gives out for much lesser offenses? Wo ever got so much as a bad performance review? Noone? Why am I not surprised?
- the_only_law 4y agoIllegal things are ok if they involve "national security" or are useful for cold war dick measuring.
- DocTomoe 4y agoIn countries that follow the rule of law, they are not.
- kube-system 4y agoWho has been executed for violating GDPR? Laws can be enforced without executing people.
- DocTomoe 4y agoThat's why I gave two "lesser punishments", which also are apparently not used.
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- pdimitar 4y agoAs if anyone have ever proven that those laws were broken -- which we know they were -- let alone ever get convicted of it. These laws are a formality and have no teeth.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoYep, that's why they "coincidentally" do a traffic stop, and find stuff "by accident".
- 6510 4y agoMore interesting : Anyone outside the US is fair game. Anything goes - by law.