[Chapter-delegates] US exclusion of privacy protection

[Faisal Shahzad]

Dear all

We must brought this issue at the highest level and must ensure the privacy
of the data of the whole world in the hands of (mostly) technological
companies based / registered in united states.

US is now taking steps which will ignite the efforts already in practice to
free the INTERNET from dominant nations control.

Faisal
Vice President ISOC
Islamabad, Pakistan Chapter


On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Richard Hill <rhill at hill-a.ch> wrote:

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> US President Trump has published  an Executive Order titled Enhancing
> Public Safety in the Interior of the United States.
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> See:
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> https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/
> presidential-executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united
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> Its section 14 reads:
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> “ 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.”
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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:
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>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974
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> But perhaps I misunderstand the situation and/or the significance of the
> Executive Order and/or of the Privacy Act.
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> Best,
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> Richard
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