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Romanian Cybersecurity Law Will Allow Warrantless Access To Data
jfruh writes: The Romanian Parliament has passed a bill that will allow its security services widespread access to data on privately owned services without a warrant, and once the president signs it, it will become law. The law would have widespread impact beyond Romania because the country is a hub for IT outsourcing.
because the country is a hub for IT outsourcing
Not anymore.
On second thought, it pumps hard currency into the economy, so I guess not.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Remember when writing outsourcing agreements that law changes could happen, and should allow you to void the agreement.
...would have liked as much control over private data.
Compared to today's Free world (of course, to the other side, they were the Free world), the former Soviet bloc countries had very little knowledge of citizen activity. The thing we've learned is that it's more effective to propagandize than to force, because all that really matters is the perception of freedom.
EUROPE? You mean a single state that always had incredibly strong ties with the US and even was a base for torture before joining the EU.. ;)
And guess what, this is also because of the US because we all know You're the little bribing Nazi of the world
Bribery gets you everywhere, also BTW, google every dictator the US has put in power and support "let's talk about fascism"
spreading the freedom of the waterboard...
Recent news revealed that Romania and Poland built torture camps for CIA in their respective countries. I'm not surprised at this news.
A hub of outsourcing unfortunately doesn't only deal in legal activity - it is entirely possible that this law is to combat the hosting of prohibited content i.e. child porn, gambling services, illegal drug markets, arms traders, slaves,etc. and this law is required to enable better targeting of those vices.
Romanians do have a history of dealing with oppression violently and with lethal consequences for the oppressors, so this law msut be used carefully.
Laws like these are what causes immediate removal of contracts and establishments. It is cheap to do business in Romania, but there are lots of African countries that are just as cheap and sill more Eurasian Countries with cheap labour costs and stable government. The unemployed Romanians will move for jobs. All that will happen is Romania will be back in the dark ages again.
It might be news to you, but capitalism - at least in the Russian variety and I wouldn't hold my breath on the US variety as of late - means a lot of the wealth has been accumulated on a few hands. I'm not sure that people are worse off on an absolute scale, but there's actually quite many feeling that they're worse off compared to everybody else. In Greece for example SYRIZA - the "Coalition of the Radical Left" - has been up to 27% in the polls lately. That's the birthplace of democracy, not some shithole that's never known anything different. Which I suppose is nicer than the way Germans reacted in the 1930s to the economic buttfucking of the Allies, I guess. In a dysfunctional economy most everything will seem like it's worth trying and they can be very productive in unconventional ways. Like the German war machine that nearly broke Europe's back in WWII was build by a country allegedely on the brink of bankruptcy. But money is money and guns in guns and what the lacked in the former they got plenty in the latter. Don't underestimate Russia and China just because they're not western.
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I Soviet Romania all your Data Blocs are belonging to us. You can have them back when we are though with them.
This will not help if the data are encrypted: http://igg.me/at/cloudaki/x/9426494
You know, some day some group is going to rise up against a crony-infested system designed to funnel money to the wanton rapacious capitalist elites, and will replace it with a crony-resistant system -- instead of just replacing it with a differently awful crony-infested system using the leftism de jure.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
You do all the right things, going through banks lawyers and accountants to sock away a few million dollars here and there.
And via SWIFT and other wire transfers, nobody 'big' rarely gets caught.
The your banks or some related party goes through a cloud, and you have someone from Romanian Intelligence blackmailing you.
Those underpaid Romanians should trawl what they got good and hard, so they can take blackmail to the next level.
The Romanian actually passed a law making the stuff they do 'legal',
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
Suppose I take my tax information to a tax preparation company, and they outsource the tax preparation (without telling me) to some company in Romania. Will the Romaian government be able to look at my name, address, SSN, email address, income, investment info, and bank routing info (for e-payment of taxes) without a warrant?
The law in question has not yet been passed by the president and has already been contested at the Constitutional Court. There it will most likely be declared unconstitutional thus illegal and void.
As most people are unaware, after the passing of the Dodd Frank reform act (post 2008 financial crisis), the U.S. gave blanket subpoena power to the civil agencies of this country with respect to financial records. Do your research, and remember The Market is not Random.
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its also a hub for illegal hacking by and for hollywood....
After the vote, the senators figured out they had no idea what they actually voted and one party challenged the law at the Constitutional Court. My hope is that, based in prior cases, they will throw the law out.
This law seems to be in contravention of several sections of the European Convention on Human Rights which Romania is party to.
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1 nuke, 10 million 'rebels' dead. Welcome to the new dark ages under the old world order.