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Obscured by Clouds or How to Address Governmental Access to Cloud Data from Abroad

2013; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2276103

1556-5068

Joris van Hoboken, Axel Arnbak, N.A.N.M. van Eijk,

Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies

Transnational surveillance is obscured by the cloud. U.S. foreign intelligence law provides a wide and relatively unchecked possibility of access to data from Europeans and other foreigners. The amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 50 USC 1881a (section 702) are of particular concern. Recent leaks around the PRISM surveillance program of the National Security Agency seem to support that these legal possibilities are used in practice on a large scale.