A New Backdoor Around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act

Posted on Mar 16, 2018

A New Backdoor Around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act

This new backdoor for cross-border data mirrors another backdoor under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, an invasive NSA surveillance authority for foreign intelligence gathering. That law, recently reauthorized and expanded by Congress for another six years, gives U.S. intelligence agencies, including the NSA, FBI, and CIA, the ability to search, read, and share our private electronic messages without first obtaining a warrant.

Source: eff.org