[Chapter-delegates] US exclusion of privacy protection

[Abdullai Kamara]

This is a further manifestation of the fears a lot of us freedom and privacy advocates have been harboring about Trump. With every new action, the world loses a little more freedom! #AmericaHasDecided to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain  K. Abdullai KamaraMedia - Democracy - Liberia1B Banjor Turning PointBanjor, Lower Virginia Montserrado, Liberia e-mail: abdullai824 at yahoo.comabdullai824@gmail.com Twitter: @abdullai824 Skype:   abdullaik         https://www.facebook.com/abdullai824  Tel: +231(0)886-522-334
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    On Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:21 AM, Richard Hill <rhill at hill-a.ch> wrote:
 

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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.  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.  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:    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974   But perhaps I misunderstand the situation and/or the significance of the Executive Order and/or of the Privacy Act.  Best,Richard
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