Feds: Google stops challenging most US warrants for data on overseas servers
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I hope dozens of countries start issuing extraterratorial warrants for data that forces US companies to hand over data held in the US. Lets see what happens then...the sooner the resultant outcry and general clusterf*ck happens and this issue is binned, the better.
The slippery slope argument was relevant maybe 60 years ago, that ship has sailed mate.
> I hope dozens of countries start issuing extraterratorial warrants for data that forces US companies to hand over data held in the US. Lets see what happens then...
The US will more clearly tell them to f* off, in case there was any shred of ambiguity left about what has been going on here, will threaten to remove some form of funding, will threaten to boot them out of some form of alliance, will threaten to sanction them, and so on, until compliance is restored. And then everyone can go on pretending their sovereignty isn't nominal because the US won't mess with anybody's traditions.
This will continue to work as long as Russia is the boogeyman.
Wait.... thats even worse than "stop challenging". Yes, clarifying that it must be done with a warrant is nice, but this doesn't solve the problem they were challenging which was that the seizure orders can often conflict with the laws of the areas where the data is.