[bestbits] Re: [governance] FW: [IP] NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secrAnet files reveal | World news | guardian.co.uk

[Norbert Bollow]

Michael,
  given that the Patriot Act requires US companies and their daughter
companies worldwide to honor (without any effective checks and balances)
privacy-infringing information demands from the US government (even when
doing so is against local laws), repealing the Patriot Act will IMO
indeed remove one major global problem.

Greetings,
Norbert


Am Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:56:57 -0400
schrieb "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>:

> I can see how that would possibly be useful to US folks but I can't
> see how it does much for the other 1.2 billion or so non-USian
> Internet users.
> 
> M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 2:20 PM
> To: michael gurstein
> Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
> Subject: Re: [governance] FW: [IP] NSA has direct access to tech
> giants' systems for user data, secrAnet files reveal | World news |
> guardian.co.uk
> 
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:48 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Great...
> >
> > So how are you suggesting we oppose this and exactly who/what are
> > we opposing?
> 
> 
> repealing the Patriot Act would be a useful first step.
> 
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
> 
> 


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