RegApr 14

RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116403024808284896

The USA now considers it a national security issue if foreign countries DON'T permit free cross-border data transfers and don't make use of US cloud services for sensitive information.

The UK is fully compliant with America's wish to have access to its data, and the UK govt's continued refusal to drop US cloud services and data companies like Palantir and Oracle effectively makes the UK a client state.

Show threadFazal MajidApr 15
@ReggieHere The word you're looking for is "protectorate". A client state gets some benefits in return for submission, the UK gets none.
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@fazalmajid

Fair comment, although I'm sure that most of us would prefer to be protected from a foreign state's corporate surveillanceware.

Apr 15 at 10:16amWeb
Show threadFazal MajidApr 15
@ReggieHere one of the quid pro quos of the imbricated US and UK surveillance apparatus is they will spy on each other’s targets that are prohibited by domestic law as a workaround. You can bet GCHQ is getting juicy intel even the toothless RIPA Tribunal would blanch at from the NSA’s Palantir feed.
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@fazalmajid

Undoubtedly, and that's without considering whether the UK gains any intelligence from UK-hosted cables.