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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.
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.
Were they having trouble getting warrants for those sorts of investigations? Even a judiciary that isn't effectively a rubber stamp usually pays attention to that kind of thing.
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!
And why would it have been any problem to get a warrant against these businesses? You know, that old fashioned "due process" kind of way?
If your answer is corruption, be prepared to be laughed at and asked why the heck this elimination of privacy would make corruption harder instead of easier. It's one less branch of the system you need to bribe.
Trading freedom for safety does not work. For a proof, just look at the ultimate exchange of freedom for security: A jail. Now, do you want to tell me that inmates are SAFE in there?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.
I bet that is the BS they try to shovel to the public when they ask. They tried that crap with SOPA in the US claiming it was to combat child porn. Which its not what they claim they want to do with a bill but what they are going to do and what it lets them do.
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.
The Romanian actually passed a law making the stuff they do 'legal',
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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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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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