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One doubt which I have is what if the servers are moved outside the United States to any other country? Would the agents still have rights to get access to it?
by agarwaltejas 12y ago
One doubt which I have is what if the servers are moved outside the United States to any other country? Would the agents still have rights to get access to it?
- dredmorbius 12y agoNot via the US legal system. The US might be able to influence processes elsewhere. However agents wouldn't be restricted by US laws and regulations either: they could simply operate to obtain the access they felt necessary to acquire the information they sought. One of the scariest things about state surveillance actors isn't their capabilities (though in the case of the NSA and a few similar agencies elsewhere this is no doubt substantial), but their impunity. In the US, under very, very broad provisions of the so-called USA-PATRIOT Act, access to tremendous amounts of data on virtually the entire population is provided, with full legal cover. Outside the US, legal cover is reduced, but so are legal restrictions. Agents can operate with reasonably little personal risk via electronic means to gain access, or interdict and retool equipment if sufficient backdoors don't already exist.