CLOUD Act: Attack on Data Protection & Privacy Rights (TUTANOTA)

In a blog post Tutanota wrote : The CLOUD Act enables US law enforcements to ask for any record stored by Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, etc. on foreign servers - so long as this would not break that country's law, e.g. the GDPR. However, as there is no juridical oversight (apart from a US court order to a US cloud service), European users of US cloud services cannot be sure that their data is being protected.

Amnesty International describes the CLOUD Act as a threat to human rights and press freedom globally. "The CLOUD Act jeopardizes the lives and safety of thousands of human rights defenders around the world at a time when they face unprecedented threats, intimidation and persecution."

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) also criticizes the executive agreements in a statement saying: The CLOUD Act is a far-reaching, privacy-upending piece of legislation that will:

• Enable foreign police to collect and wiretap people's communications from U.S. companies, without obtaining a U.S. warrant.
• Allow foreign nations to demand personal data stored in the United States, without prior review by a judge.
• Allow the U.S. president to enter "executive agreements" that empower police in foreign nations that have weaker privacy laws than the United States to seize data in the United States while ignoring U.S. privacy laws.
• Allow foreign police to collect someone's data without notifying them about it.
• Empower U.S. police to grab any data, regardless if it's a U.S. person's or not, no matter where it is stored.

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