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The point is that the American government have no right to monitor my communications with a website outside the US, given I live in the UK (we'll ignore that I work for an American company for a bit).

If the UK government decides they need to monitor my communications, fair enough. I am, afterall, subject to UK law.

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The UK gov shares data with the US.

It can only share a certain amount under EU Law. There would have to be some sort of criminal threat.

Is there any check/balance on the definition of "criminal threat"? Because that's a pretty loose definition a priori.

"We believe a terrorist exists in GB. That constitutes a criminal threat. To catch him or her, we need to run big data analysis on all communications."

That doesn't follow - that wouldn't allow the export of European data to the US.

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