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Hold on.... If a foreigner is protected while in the US, is accountable to the US if he/she breaks US law from abroad, and accountable if he/she breaks US law
by alan_cx 13y ago
Hold on....
If a foreigner is protected while in the US, is accountable to the US if he/she breaks US law from abroad, and accountable if he/she breaks US law while visiting the US in the form of visiting a US web-server, (we foreigners are said to have visited US jurisdiction if we use US based services, there for we can be extradited) why then, if a foreigner's data is on US servers or systems, is his/her data and privacy not also protected under US law, if a foreigner is protected while in the US.
If we are said to have visited the US and there for come under US law if we use US services, then surely it must also apply that the data we leave behind is also protected.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoWell, US jurisdiction only applies when it's convenient, and the same goes for rights ;)
- Andrew_Quentin 13y agoI think its rather that no one has tested the above argument. The judgement was in 1953, so it had nothing to say about the internet or data stored in the US.
- ra 13y agoYou're right, it's hypocrisy in action. I wonder if a panel of lawmakers were given all of this to make recommendations on, without secrecy, gag orders or political prejudice, if we'd have very different situation today.
- gundy 13y agoUS government is bigoted and tyrannical towards non-US citizens. Period.