Can the U.S. government access our data stored in 🇪🇺&🇨🇭🫕? #MaxSchrems asked the #EUcourtOfJustice who then struck down the EU–U.S. #PrivacyShield for failures:

👀 https://go.epfl.ch/OurData-notSoSecret-SchremsSpeakingOut

#FISA702 & #EO12333 give the U.S. access to data, stored on European servers, of U.S.-owned platforms. MITIGATION?🍀
✅reduce dependency on U.S. owned services despite CH data-location.
✅ with cloud services,.. encrypt encrypt encrypt.😏
✅ Hope that #SchremsIII challenges the #2023DPF that replaced Privacy Shield.

@hunkyscotsman @Techmeme

Yep. We don't know who is doing any particular investigation and why. Though you can certainly hope they are happening in many cases. Then again, there can be sham investigations that are designed to *not* uncover any evidence of criminal activity.

You just never know.

As Obama said, who is watching the watchers?

#FISA #EO12333 #section702 #NSA #FBI

what's going on with the #GRSA?

seems like #HR6262 still only been introduced: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6262/text?s=10&r=1

useful info about the bill: "Quick Guide to the Government Surveillance Reform Act" by @epicprivacy:

https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2023-11-7-GSRA-Quick-Guide.pdf (pdf)

#privacy #section702 #eo12333 #fisa #databrokers #surveillance #lawfedi

ICYMI: CIA apparently had its own "upstream" electronic surveillance program during Clinton's second term...the very kind of collection covered under FISA Sec. 702 but done before the law existed & thus with no court oversight.

https://www.ocregister.com/2023/11/26/is-the-cia-still-secretly-capturing-americans-communications/

#FISASection702 #surveillance #EO12333 #CIA

If FISA Section 702 dies on January 1, 2024, will the USG still be able to collect the data? From what we now know about a previously classified CIA program--one that operated under EO 12333 with ZERO court oversight--the answer is likely yes. My latest in the OC Register, made possible by FOIA litigation.

https://www.ocregister.com/2023/11/26/is-the-cia-still-secretly-capturing-americans-communications/

#FISASection702 #CIA #surveillance #EO12333