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Missing from the list: cross-border "information sharing." If your data lives in "the cloud" (and possibly another country), a mutual exchange of information o
by vy8vWJlco 14y ago
Missing from the list: cross-border "information sharing."
If your data lives in "the cloud" (and possibly another country), a mutual exchange of information on each nations' person of interest need not violate any local laws. I don't have any statistics at hand for this one, but hey, if it works for torture why not data?
- mtgx 14y agoIndeed: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57556674/patriot-act-can-obtain-data-in-europe-researchers-say http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57556674/patriot-act-can...
- yesbabyyes 14y agoYeah, in fact ECHELON grew out of the UKUSA Agreement [1]. Pretty clever, actually; if we can't spy on our citizens, and you can't spy on yours, let's switch! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement