



Microsoft tipped off the EU about possible data grab


I. PATRIOT Act: Policing the World





II. Our Laws Are Greater Than Yours









III. Does U.S. Privacy Bill Provide an Answer?






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By BZDTemp on 7/6/2011 2:56:30 PM , Rating: 0
European, as in EU since for example Russia is part of Europe, may look like an alternative but it does not help enough.

Putting something beyond national borders will always mean a great risk of loosing control. Of course as an outset the EU looks much better than the crazy US with it's paranoid desire to control the world (sorry, but I don't know what else to call it) but what happen when a EU member state someday thinks differently.

Fx. right now we are seeing Greece giving sod all about international laws and putting protester ships under blockade because Israel would like them to. Or how about the EU giving in to the US demand for airline passenger data.

Here in Denmark we have data protection laws which stops sensitive data from being put in the clouds and even demand they stay within our borders. Those laws are under pressure from the industry, partly because financial documents are also covered by those rules to ensure the taxman can have full access if needed (something that could be perhaps impossible if said financial documents were in a cloud in let's say the Caymans).

*Echelon, ICANN, Patriot Act, ICE claiming jurisdiction over COM-domain content regardless if outside the US...

By BloodSquirrel on 7/6/2011 3:17:59 PM , Rating: 2
I love how you talk about "the crazy US with it's paranoid desire to control the world", and then talk about what Greece should or should not be doing within it's borders.

By Paj on 7/7/2011 8:40:00 AM , Rating: 2
Greece is part of the EU though, and is thus subject to EU law as long as it is a member. Kind of like how the USA is a collection of states, which have to abide by US federal law, y'know?

