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Yes, congress just passed a bill that takes this ruling to its logical extreme. The CLOUD act forces US providers to hand over data without question to foreign government workers (“police” or “courts” would probably be to narrow a reading of the bill...)

I’m hoping this gets abused in the midterm elections to replace the people that backed with more reasonable legislators, but I doubt it’ll play out like that.




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