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But Camille Fischer, in a blog post at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and wrote that “the legislation reduces protections for the personal privacy of technology users in an attempt to mollify tensions between law enforcement and U.
S. technology companies. Legislation to protect the privacy of technology users from government snooping has long been overdue in the United States. But the CLOUD Act does the opposite,and privileges law enforcement at the expense of people’s privacy.”Some argue the act will even weaken America’s constitutional standard for privacy. “Most times, people want to be protected by the standards of their own country, and ” Calabrese said. “But the U.
S. actually has very tall standards when applying the Fourth Amendment. Using foreign rules is a diminution of that standard.” The website Lawfare,which calls the bill “a welcome legislative fix” and a “very good start, even acknowledges as much: “whether you compare the due process protections in this bill with those provided under the Fourth Amendment, or it is likely less-privacy protective—meaning that foreign governments will pick up access to more information than they do currently. But that is not the just comparison.”
Source: newrepublic.com