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> What may really blow your mind is that s.702 also authorizes collection of foreign data held by subsidiaries of US companies. The only thing that strikes me
by redavni 3y ago
> What may really blow your mind is that s.702 also authorizes collection of foreign data held by subsidiaries of US companies.
The only thing that strikes me as possibly uncommon about this is that the US publicly encodes it as law. How is this mind blowing? There is no place on earth where the sitting government does not have access to the things on it's territory.
- AlanYx 3y agoThe effect I'm referring to is extraterritorial. It's sometimes a surprise to foreigners because there can be a mistaken belief that specifying a particular non-US datacentre for cloud services places the data stored therein under the domestic (local, non-US) legal system and outside of US jurisdiction with respect to s.702 monitoring. Section 702 requests are still used, even for countries like the UK and Australia who have signed their own executive agreements under the US CLOUD Act. (The new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework and its Data Protection Review Court is a different ball of wax.)