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Ars commenters still very stupid by laudablepuss 09/15/2017, 2:18pm PDT
Whatever.

I would like to see a new law that declares electronic personal data to be the same as tangible property


It already is illegal to spread certain kinds of data, such as personally identifying information. What does his request mean? What would this declaration actually do? If he wants his ISP to hand deliver his email going forward, I guess he can try to convince them to do it.

I'm sure the US government would be OK if other countries did the same, right? There are probably several French, German or possibly even Chinese companies that keep data on US based servers?

Seriously, what would the US government do if an overseas government requested data from an overseas company that is located on servers in US?


Nothing of course. I like that he thinks we'd bomb them or something. I'd like to mention again that this regime is already in place for international banking and nobody cares.

SERIOUSLY THOUGH GUYS.

Soon the US will come full circle and demand that any citizen in the world will be subject to US tax law, because murica. The world will have to proclaim independence from US jurisdiction 2076


Haha.

So I'm just skimming here, but really? Nobody wants to say maybe the "it's in my other pants" defense is a little bit disingenuous? Nobody at all?

Just to be clear, from the article:
The US government claims that where the tech sector stores data should not matter. What matters is whether a company can access that data in the US, according to the Justice Department.

But yet, the Ars guys think the US wants companies to break the laws of foreign countries, or wants to send paratroops into foreign data centers.
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