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.

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Idiots

[Drgnkght]

because the country is a hub for IT outsourcing

Not anymore.

Re:Idiots

[Free Censorship]

Odd how Americans think the same playbook is good and privacy is bad

We're not a hivemind. I'm an American and I oppose nonsense like the NSA's mass surveillance 100%; I don't think they should even be collecting the data at all.

Re:Outsourcing is why its needed

[Anonymous Coward]

So in other words, they have to sacrifice freedom & privacy for safety, ignoring the fact that freedom and privacy are more important than safety to begin with. Look, I don't care one bit about bogeymen like child porn or gambling services (ha!); any good country would reject infringing upon people's liberties for such a worthless reason. Sadly, there don't seem to be all that many good countries, if any at all.

What a depressing state of affairs, where there are people on Slashdot who are duped into fearing the child porn bogeyman, supporting safety over checks and balances and freedom, and suggesting that the law must merely be used carefully to avoid the same abuses that we've seen from all governments throughout the human race's history. This time, authorities will be perfect beings and will make no mistakes, mark my words!

Re:LOL fascists

[Kjella]

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.