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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>US President Trump has published an Executive Order titled Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>See: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/presidential-executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united">https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/presidential-executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Its section 14 reads:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“ Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent residents from the protections of the Privacy Act regarding personally identifiable information.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Taken literally, this means that the protections of the Privacy Act do not apply to a person who is legitimately travelling in the USA, for example for a business meeting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And it means that the protections do not apply to people who are not US citizens and who don’t reside in the USA. So it means that any data regarding such persons that may wind up in the USA would not be protected.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Such an approach to privacy does not appear to me to be likely to increase trust in the Internet and, in my view, constitutes a violation of the human right to privacy, even if the scope of the Privacy Act, and hence of the exclusion, is rather limited since the Privacy Act applies only to US Federal agencies, see:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But perhaps I misunderstand the situation and/or the significance of the Executive Order and/or of the Privacy Act.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>