FISA: U.S. law allows Europeans to spy through the cloud .....
At the end of 2012 we told you about the renewal of the FISA law in the United States a regulation that gives intelligence agencies the ability to spy on the country's citizens without warrants.Now, after a report to the European Parliament, has warned that the law also authorizes the surveillance of foreigners if data are stored in cloud services from U.S. companies like Google, Facebook or MicrosoftSomething similar to what happened with the Patriot Act, which could be used for obtaining data of citizens outside the United States if there is a threat of terrorism.This time, the approach is different, as the report makes clear that FISA is an even greater risk for Data sovereignty of EU member.FISA was passed in 1978 by Carter, a regulation establishing procedures for physical and electronic surveillance in addition to the information collection U.S. citizens and permanent residents suspected of being involved in espionage in the country.In 2008 FISA was introduced retroactively since the end of 2012 was renewed until 2017.During the renewal process, a conflict arose between those defenders civil liberties that warned the law as an attack on the privacy of citizensAccording Caspar Bowden, former chief advisor on Microsoft's privacy Europe and the man who drafted part of the report:- " The amendment gives U.S. created a power of mass surveillance specifically aimed at non-US persons data located abroad using cloud services. "The law comes to indicate that U.S. companies with a presence in the EU may be forced by a secret surveillance dictated in turn by a court in secret, to deliver the data of Europeans.According to Bowden account, most intelligence agencies of the countries monitored real-time communications, such as emails or phone calls from those groups under suspicion because of national security.FISA however, expressly authorizes the monitoring of these communications real time data in the cloud related located abroad.According to the ex-advisor:- " It's like a blank favoring any interest in foreign policy U.S. and legalized up to European journalists or political activists engaged in any problem in which the United States may have some involvement. "FISA explicitly makes it lawful for the country perform surveillancecontinuous mass democratic ordinary activities. 'Even more, because it allows forcing U.S. providers in the cloud like Google to provide the data required for European users.Bowden finished the report asking the European Union to seek explanations urge as providing a framework where every European citizen can receive warnings that their data could be violated under FISA.FISA is: ( Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act Amendments )............