Trump's lips sealed on surveillance, complains EU privacy chief The US administration has been keeping schtum regarding President Trump's plans to adhere to promises made by Obama's government on how EU citizens' data would be protected from the NSA's mass-surveillance activities. Giovanni Buttarelli, the EU's data protection supervisor, has complained that his office is "waiting for a …
Just get someone to whisper in his ear "Sign this and all Hilarys' e-mails will be yours"
Back in the real world didn't he just sign an EO putting US citizens browser history up for sale.
Plus with his America First policy ( excl Trump brand clothing knick-knacks and wives,), there is no way he will agree to EU (aka foreign) privacy principles.
All Hail El Douché
"No, we're not going to respect the privacy of your citizens. So? What are you going to do about it?"
Really, the only thing that the EU can do is to declare it illegal to store EU user data out of the EU. I'm not sure it would be very useful, and I'm not sure the users themselves care a lot; but it's completely silly to pretend that the US are going to respect the privacy of EU citizens, when they basically don't even respect that of US citizens.
That, or they drop the charade, and they admit that they are unable to guarantee the privacy of their citizens.
Grand- build more data centres in Portugal, Ireland and Belgium- and have the lot of them route their traffic through Europe. We already warehouse most of our international stuff in Europe anyway- all we have to do by and large- is formally do so.
As an aside- whatever happened to Microsoft and the case the US government brought against them- for e-mails stored on a server in Ireland? Is that still trundling through the US court system?
As an aside- whatever happened to Microsoft and the case the US government brought against them- for e-mails stored on a server in Ireland?
Microsoft won. Eventually.
"Really, the only thing that the EU can do is to declare it illegal to store EU user data out of the EU. I'm not sure it would be very useful, and I'm not sure the users themselves care a lot; but it's completely silly to pretend that the US are going to respect the privacy of EU citizens, when they basically don't even respect that of US citizens."
I wonder what the Trump administration would do or say if the EU refused to respect the privacy of US citizens? I'm sure the irony of it would be completely beyond them.
[Blackadder] Baldrick, have you no idea what "irony" is?
[Baldrick] Yes, it's like "goldy" and "bronzy" only it's made out of iron.
In the mean time, without any assurances and all, I hope that the data transfers have stopped, right ?
Oh, silly me, I forgot. The US has everyone's balls in jars in the Ready Room on level -4 of the White House - if you do something they don't like, they squeeze until you get the message.
The fact that EU citizens have singed up en masse to Facebook et al without a moment's thought to the privacy they have heard for years they are giving up does not bode well for EU governments having any nous to try and actually protect our data.
At this point, Hell and handbaskets come to mind.
I think there's two different levels here. Data given freely to US companies by people, eg signing up to Facebook, and data sent off-shore for processing without specific consent, eg IIRC was it Lockheed Martin who were given the entire UK census data to process?
Neither are safe within UK law, but I'd be more concerned about large datasets being sent to the US without the data subjects consent.
I still upvoted you though because it's the gradual "nudging" away from an expectation of privacy that has got us here in the first place.
It's just that nobody in the White House understands how the phones work. Once they figure that out, they'll be in touch.
Now... It's pick up the receiver, then select a line... No wait, select a line, then press the speaker button, then dial '9' for an outside line? Or is it '6' for international calls, then '011'? No, use '9', but drop the '0' and dial --
Hello? Is someone there?
Because they said they'd call us! We don't want to look desperate here.
Trump trumpets (pun intended) his l337 skillz as a Master Negotiator. If you go to him cap in hand, you should expect to be spanked until your buttocks fall off.
The only language he might even pretend to respect is hardball. Declare Safe Harbor finished, give all EU companies six months from today to show that they've repatriated all their data and, so far as possible, destroyed all copies within reach of US authorities. Start the clock ticking. That's the next move.
Declare Safe Harbor finished, give all EU companies six months from today to show that they've repatriated all their data and, so far as possible, destroyed all copies within reach of US authorities. Start the clock ticking. That's the next move.
It was already declared finished and the CIA was under a direct order from the last president not to hoard vulnerabilities and disclose them, so it's probably very enlightening for "Trump" and his cronies, that no matter what he or the former president instructs his special agents or spies to do, they do exactly the opposite.
They're all in huge trouble, you see when you build up armies of Cyber warriors and cyber hackers and let them all run rampant and rough-shod over the law as it stands and declare that what they're doing is entirely legal, when it's far from it, then they build up an explosive situation as already expressed by other more distinguished hackers, whereby in the end the only people you find you've actually managed to hack into is yourself!
This is not the first time all this kind of crap has happened you'd be foolish to believe thats the case, in fact back in the 90's they did something similar with Microsoft as a monopoly and loads of people went to Jail, so count onwards - only a few years an a load more of these arse-holes abusing computer science research are just as destined to go to Jail just like the last lot.
Just typing in Vault 7 presents thousands of Internet denizens with news about how the contents of Vault 7 where redacted by Wikileaks to prevent proliferation of the CIA's cyber-weapons, yet a quick search on GitHub reveals those same tools are on-line to download in full and un-redacted version for any programmer to glare at, in other CIA news a plane touched down yesterday where the Secretive five eye's alliance are holding a meeting of Spies in new Zealand, with the new Zealanders apparently oblivious as to who is going to there meeting... Well you heard it here first, that a five second search reveals that person to be none other than "Scott Brown" from MA whom "President Trump" or the "Troll" according to "Richard Stallman" has nominated as his new ambassador to New Zealand, apparently he's a keen golfer, so when he's finished wasting tax payer's money and waffling about the benefits of insider trading by bypassing encryption on peoples phones via a glaring back-door that every single programmer can see and letting all the so called intelligence agencies glare at those same end users like a bunch of Pedophiles over there own camera - eating caviar, presumably he'll have time for a few rounds of Golf.
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