💼 One of those days… 💪🏼

💼 One of those days… 💪🏼

EFF: "The CLOUD Act, a far-reaching, privacy-upending piece of legislation"

Sound the alarms:

“This final, tacked-on piece of legislation will erode privacy protections around the globe.”

This notice, courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

This bill is the CLOUD Act. It was never reviewed or marked up by any committee in either the House or the Senate. It never received a hearing. It was robbed of a stand-alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this un-vetted, unrelated bill to the $1.3 trillion government spending bill.

The CLOUD Act is a far-reaching, privacy-upending piece of legislation that will:

  • Enable foreign police to collect and wiretap people’s communications from U.S. companies, without obtaining a U.S. warrant.
  • Allow foreign nations to demand personal data stored in the United States, without prior review by a judge.
  • Allow the U.S. president to enter “executive agreements” that empower police in foreign nations that have weaker privacy laws than the United States to seize data in the United States while ignoring U.S. privacy laws.
  • Allow foreign police to collect someone’s data without notifying them about it.
  • Empower U.S. police to grab any data, regardless if it’s a U.S. person’s or not, no matter where it is stored.

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Little fun without giving away privacy: got 42/50!

Can you beat your mates in this quiz of all 50 European flags?

Little fun without giving away privacy: got 42/50!

Can you beat your mates in this quiz of all 50 European flags?

Daring Fireball: ‘Privacy Means People Know What They’re Signing Up For’

Great day out to the Southern side of Dublin, checking out Killiney Bay!

Daring Fireball: ‘Privacy Means People Know What They’re Signing Up For’

Great day out to the Southern side of Dublin, checking out Killiney Bay!

Alien Covenant in 4K on an iPad Pro is quite the entertaining watch!

Another excellent dinner date in Dublin!

Alien Covenant in 4K on an iPad Pro is quite the entertaining watch!

Another excellent dinner date in Dublin!

Currently listening to a recorded interview at 55% of its original speed so I can transcribe it.

Picture me like this

Currently listening to a recorded interview at 55% of its original speed so I can transcribe it.

Picture me like this

This week has been quite intense, but I’ve finally hit peak productivity on client work! This, in part, due to catching up on @Complexion’s #TFBS

This week has been quite intense, but I’ve finally hit peak productivity on client work! This, in part, due to catching up on @Complexion’s #TFBS

Been thinking about @Path a lot over the past few years. I’m ridiculously excited about the prospect of @DaveMorin and the OG team to possibly rebuild something similar and intimate, with an emphasis on a subscription-model to keep it afloat!

twitter.com/davemorin…

Been thinking about @Path a lot over the past few years. I’m ridiculously excited about the prospect of @DaveMorin and the OG team to possibly rebuild something similar and intimate, with an emphasis on a subscription-model to keep it afloat!

twitter.com/davemorin…

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