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Senators Push Trump Administration For Clarity On Privacy Act Exclusions (onthewire.io)
Trailrunner7 quotes a report from On the Wire: A group of influential lawmakers, including Sen. Ed Markey and Sen. Ron Wyden, are pressing the Trump administration for answers about how an executive order that includes changes to the Privacy Act will affect non-U.S. persons and whether the administration plans to release immigrants' private data. The letter comes from six senators who are concerned about the executive order that President Trump issued two weeks ago that excludes from privacy protections people who aren't U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The order is mostly about changes to immigration policy, but Trump also included a small section that requires federal government agencies to exclude immigrants from Privacy Act protections. On Thursday, Markey, Wyden, and four other senators sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Jon Kelly, asking a series of 10 questions about how the exclusion would be implemented, what it would cost, and whether the government plans to release the private data of people affected by the order. "These Privacy Act exclusions could have a devastating impact on immigrant communities, and would be inconsistent with the commitments made when the government collected much of this information," the senators said in the letter to Kelly. In the letter, the lawmakers ask Kelly whether people affected by the order will be allowed full access to their own private data that has been collected by the government. They also ask how the government plans to identify U.S. persons in their databases and what policies DHS will apply to separate them from non-U.S persons. The letter also asks for clarification on how the executive order will affect the Privacy Shield pact between the U.S and the European Union. That agreement enables companies to move private data between countries under certain data protection laws.
Until we reduce the reelection rates in congress you can forget about it.
Meanwhile CIA and FBI staff have confirmed Flynn's discussions with the Russian Ambassador about lifting sanctions, as described in the pee memo. BEFORE the election.
"A US official confirmed to CNN late Friday afternoon that Flynn and the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, did speak about sanctions, among other matters, during the call....Flynn cannot rule out that he spoke to Kislyak about sanctions, an aide close to the national security adviser said earlier Friday. Flynn, the aide said, has "no recollection of discussing sanctions," but added that the national security adviser "couldn't be certain that the topic never came up."
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/flynn-russia-us-sanctions-reports/index.html
Keep in mind Flynn was a nobody, back in August, when the memo says Putin was grooming him. Which means Putin knew before America that Trump would pluck this nobody for his security advisor, and it confirms Trump conspired with Putin to select people. The Russian Ambassador knew too, before the election that Flynn was to be appointed, again before Trump actually chose him. Proving the two conspired.
At this point Republicans need to get their shit together, prosecute Trump for treason, put Pence in, get the cyber security bill signed, the one Trump is blocking. Get the generals put back onto the National Security council, after Trump demoted them to occasional consultants... they are Congretional Appointees assigned to the National Security Council FFS, America is vulnerable if the military is removed from those meetings, and only Putin's agents are present.
The two spies Putin arrested, they fit the profile of the two known agents in the pee memos. These agents were known and considered reliable by NSA, CIA, MI6 etc. Yet they were arrested just after Trump's men entered the CIA. If they are US spies in Russia, then Trump needs to face espionage charges for passing their names across.
Kick this whiney buttercup out of office and put a Republican in.
do not pass go,
do not collect $200
off to Gitmo you go because you are obviously a terrorist.
Welcome to Stalag/Gulag USA in 2017
He doesnt know what any of his policies are.
No one is going to share data with the US if it goes ahead with this. The EU is already reluctant.
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This is political crap.
That's the entire point of Steve Bannon, the "President behind the curtain". He wants to destabilize the entire planet and destroy civilization as we know it. This is an exact quote from him:
“Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
He's the one who's really writing many of these Executive Orders. He wants to burn it all down, and rebuild it in his own twisted image that fits his into his alt-right image. He knows that our society is held together by very fragile bonds formed through trust, past promises, monetary policy; attack these pillars and the whole thing will collapse.
Well if Trump won't secure American political emails from FSB hackers, do they really think he'll secure EU emails from FSB and NSA nosey parkers? Nah. He'll be reading Paul Ryan's browser history for personal amusement, he'll listen in on Merkel, and as for the Aussia Prime Minister he pissed off, everything from this home security camera, to phone will be tapped.
How long did his "Ivanka will resign from all Trump businesses" promise last? Well that promise was made January 9th, and that big pile of blank paper was supposed to be the contracts signed, and by 9th February, he's complaining that Norstrom are dropping Ivanka's line of fashion.... so his promise didn't even last a month.
There were multiple plausible solutions to the puzzle when it was merely the Trump campaign, and what they learned then is that clarity is the enemy. It wasn't necessary to win the election, and it's not going to be a high priority now.
Bilaterally, the Democratic campaign was no better at it.
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According to the US Government roughly 35% of all tourists to the country come from Western European countries. I'm pretty sure your idea will work real well.
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
Until we reduce the reelection rates in congress you can forget about it.
We have become so partisan in this country - which the ruling class LOVES - that we'll never see that happen.
My state keeps sending the same old people back every year. Why? because it means voting for a Democrat.
And that will never happen. In my state, all a Republican needs to do is say "Pro-Life" and "Roe vs Wade has to go" and "Democrats gonna take yer guns!" he's in. And here, Democrats are socialists!
Privacy and the finer points of civil liberties goes right over their heads. And how those "Conservatives" have gamed the system against them: how their retirement plans are being gouged by financial firms' fees; how they are being gouged by their ISP and cable TV company; why the business up the road can dump just about anything it wants into the ground; just flies through their ears.
As long as they have their bibles, guns, football on ESPN and F-150, they're happier than the pigs on the McCully farm. You can do anything you want to them politically.
I really hope my disgust for the American electorate shows.
and I doubt they even wrote the executive order.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
The feds have nothing on what Facebook and Google have collected.
Private companies don't have to FOIA requests, can collect all sorts of stuff the feds don't (race, sexual preference, fetishes, diseases, how slutty you are, if you are a drunk or not, etc.)
Do the work to become a citizen if you feel like you are being targeted as a non-citizen. Go the fuck home if you are an illegal. The raids have already started. They'll get around to you.
As someone who lives in Western Europe and has been travelling to the USA since 1975 I can safely say that I really have no inclination to want to visit while you current TWIC (Tweeter in Charge) is running the show.
Sorry guys but my tourist dollar will be going elsewhere for the forseeable future.
Last year I spent close on $3,000 in the USA. This year, I'm going to Sri Lanka.
Trump Making A List Of All The People Trying To Stop The Travel Ban, Vows Swift And Violent Retribution
It's not as if any slashdotters would have to implement this, or if its effects would have any bearing on their work. I look forward to the day when Slashdot stops posting stories about data, or anything that might affect data.
Bannons quote is in regards to restoring the US Constitution and removing the corrupt oligarchy from power. Even in that statement if you concentrate on the "all of today's establishment" it is clear that this is not destroying the Constitution but the Oligarchs and corrupt cronies they place in positions of power.
Stop cherry picking for "fake news". Bannon has a long history of speeches going back well over a decade on Youtube and if you listen or read speeches you will see that corruption and a "political class" is the issue.
The communists in this country have become very good at creating false narratives, and people have become so moronic that they simply follow the rhetoric without checking anything at all. Hence, wanting to protect the border results in a Candidate and President being labeled "anti-Hispanic", "Islamophobic", "xenophobic", anti-Semitic, and any other label that the morons will latch on to and repeat.
Bannon wanting to get rid of the corruption means "destroy the entire planet" to useful idiots who need to start draining the water from their heads and think for themselves for a change. You are disgusting.
Trump didn't make any "changes to the privacy act", nor could he if he wanted to.
What they are saying is clear from these paragraphs:
So, citizens and immigrants are excluded.
Next:
I.e., the Obama administration made promises to people illegally present in the US that are not backed by law. And the Trump administration is saying that it does not intend to keep those promises, for the simple reason that they are planning on using information collected from illegals in order to prioritize and deport them.
That's a red herring; Privacy Shield is backed by law and an entirely separate issue. Trump isn't trying to go after EU citizens who have shared their information with Google or Microsoft, he is trying to go after people illegally present in the US. If Trump wanted to exclude EU citizens from privacy protections or even visa free travel, he could do that easily, but this EO doesn't do it. In fact, generally speaking, the Trump administration wants more immigration from democratic Western nations and less immigration from other parts of the world, so Europe is pretty much the last place on earth they want to make it hard to immigrate or travel from.
It's, of course, perfectly legitimate for senators to ask questions of the current administration. But let's not kid ourselves, this inquiry is political posturing, not a serious attempt at clarification, from senators that have little political power left; they are looking for ammunition against Trump. It will be interesting to see how Trump responds. I suspect, as he has done before, Trump will manage to turn these senators into unwitting allies in spreading his message.
Flynn was named the National Security Advisor in the transition team, so meeting w/ envoys of other countries to discuss the agenda would have been part of his job description. In other words, him meeting the envoy of one of the world's 2 other superpowers would have been pretty high on his list.
The OP's post is just a carryover of Democrat bitterness over losing the elections, and trying to illegitimize the role of Wikileaks here by tying it to Russia. Even though Assange has stated that Russia was not the source of his leaks. In fact, unlike in the physical world where only national spy agencies might have certain capabilities, in the cyber world, anybody can hack email systems. Particularly ones protected by passwords that are 'password'
You mean Republicans?
Nice try, anonymous troll. By most measures, Europe is a much safer place than the US. You are unlikely for example to be shot for honking at someone cutting in front of you. You are also safe from civil forfeiture. And you have the right to criticise the president - any president.
But as the OP said, civil liberties are not appreciated anymore.
Interesting you should say this. One of my friends and his family was planning to visit the UK last fall, but after a stabbing jihad attack in London, he canned that plan and went to the Canadian Rockies instead.
Most of the posters on /., as well as members of 'The Resistance' are pissed that people from countries like Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria are being stopped from coming to the US. They should put their money where their mouth is and go to one of these countries on vacation, instead of talking places like Sri Lanka or New Zealand or other such places
Have infested Slashdot moderation system. If it's not far left it gets down modded. Slashdot needs to get the sockpuppets out of the system, normal people don't like to hang out in sewers.
...than just question that part of the EO. Senators should stop waving clearly unqualified and utterly inept chronic liars through into cabinet positions. Are the Republican Senators so afraid of orange Trump that they just fold like a cheap tent? What do I expect from folks who for a year outright refused to do their job!?
Ah yes, in the face of all this fake news the truth is now troll/flamebait. Now we are showing the root of the problem. And the democrats are considerably worse than the republicans on this. They are angry and violent. So... down we go then, eh? You are getting the fascism you want. You really should stop complaining.
I agree with the current administration that privacy is counter to keeping us safe and making America great again. Let's start with this document.
Sri Lanka? Oh yeah! No corruption there! Big improvement over the U.S. And the place is so spotless!
Or maybe Poe's law applies there...
Why wasn't this document released on WikiLeaks? Perhaps because there is something like "honor among thieves"?
Why would you be friends with anybody who would even consider leaving the USA for any reason, even just to have fun spending their great American dollars in some foreign land. Now that Trump (nee: Drumpf) is in charge, American inner-cities will be safe again and certainly far more interesting than any foreign terrorist breeding ground like the UK - and their money will stay right here in the good old U S of A where it can help make America great again!
Another option - open primaries. Instead of having separate R and D primaries, have one open primary that all candidates take part in, with the top two going on to the actual election.
That has a fair chance of breaking the lock-in in highly partisan races, since you may well end up with two R or two D candidates going into the election. At which point you've got the whole electorate voting for whichever candidate they think is best, rather than just voting the party line.
Of course you may well get a bunch of disheartened "minority party" voters who don't bother to vote at all, but in a heavily partisan state you probably have that anyway. And at least with two "Evil party" members on the ballot you can vote for the lesser evil.
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The same is true about visiting europe. Nothing about constant terrror attacks from refugee that roam the street and are not properly vetted. LOVE PARIS. Was there last summer and it was out and out SCARY with all the refugess sleeping on street corners and trying to rob you
How can you possibly say that.? In Europe, you can't carry your 14 round Glock pistol or your M-16 derived 'hunting rifle' into the grocery store. You never know what lurks behind the shelves.
You're never safe over there.
Never.
USA! USA!
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Wrong on two counts. Obama never implemented an outright ban, just what you'd call "extreme vetting", (certainly green card holders were never included) and the list of countries matches those with majority Muslim populations, rather than those ISIL operate in (there is some truth that they were identified by the Obama administration, though). If Trump were serious about blocking terrorists from coming into the US (which is impossible) then at least Nigeria should have been included, and a non outright ban to not alienate allies like Iraq would have been the sane approach. Trump has just managed to come across as overbearing and stupid, basically.
Last year I spent close on $3,000 in the USA. This year, I'm going to Sri Lanka.
Enjoy your trip.
Meanwhile, Trump will just have ICE deport three more illegal immigrant households, more than making up for the money you might have spent (even if you'd been giving it straight to the US taxpayers, rather than mostly to the megacorps that exploit them.)
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Was this that great document that got splashed on Buzzfeed and cited on CNN, thereby earning the latter Trump's permanent stamp of 'Fake News' and crashing their reputation among all but the most loony on the Left such as you?
This is the difference of issues..
Some people cancel travel over a specific/isolated crime event (something that can happen literally anywhere).. VS.. a government actively turning into a 3rd world dictatorship + isolated crime event (like the above) + the general attitude of the local populous.
Yes, events do happen, but systemic issues + government turning into an oppressive regime = no tourists. (I know personally about 40 Chinese and Indian investors that are cancelling trips (and when I say investors, I mean people that can blow 50K USD on a night of fun without blinking an eye and buy million dollar homes like most by sandwiches) because of how the US is turning.. I myself (no where near their level of wealth but we do ok) am packing my family and heading out to Taiwan and England.. (we are moving our businesses out of the US and into Canada.. it will take a year or so to complete, but once we saw who was running, we knew back in June, it was not going to end well).
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The privacy act offers a level of protection in the USA for citizens, legal non citizens in the USA from intrusive gov searches over vast shared gov databases.
The US State department officials will keep on allowing refugees, students, workers, random people into the USA from nations that are on watch lists.
So the travel aspect of getting valid US paperwork cant be changed thanks to massive amount of travel paperwork still been issued by US bureaucrats.
The good news is people entering the US on such paperwork then face border control. Congress has passed a lot of real legal power for border control.
Over the past decades the usable legal powers at the US border have been added to by Congress.
Lying on entry to the USA does not get a lot of court protection. Found to be lying in the USA still gets court access, protections to try and halt any gov action.
So any Sate department issues paperwork is valid but ability to question at any crossing point into the US still works very well.
Entering any nation is not a right, that granted privilege can be revoked as more facts are discovered during a normal interview.
Once a non citizen is in the USA legally some protection exist. At that crossing point, Congress has been very clear in what can be done to protect the USA from nations that support, fund and hide interesting people, cults, faiths, groups, political parties.
If you are entering/renetering the US every US public, mil, gov, public/private partnership, private, city, state, court, police, federal, social media database should be used during an interview.
Why should anyone get international legal cover, bluff, hide, omit, charm, forge or fake their way into the USA by lying to a United States official?
Just having EU citizenship is not some legal magic diplomatic immunity when entering the USA.
Given the ever changing ability to get EU citizenship by walking in from any random nation, it would be very difficult for the US to evaluate any interesting person "given" any EU passport.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Keep drinking the GOP kool-aid my friend. You're their favorite type.
Good! Stay gone! America doesn't need fair-weather friends who will drop us the minute we elect a politician they don't like.
Americans are tired of wasting money on the likes of NATO, bases in Germany, etc. A complete waste of money that we canâ(TM)t afford, and which serves no purpose. If Russia wants to annex the Ukraine I donâ(TM)t care at all, not even a tiny bit.
The EU also has massive, massive problems, unelected, unresponsive bureaucrats who view their jobs as an all expense paid vacation, flooding the continent with third world migrants, etc.
European welfare state model is also probably unsustainable, particularly w/o the hapless US taxpayers funding their defense.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Maybe it is fake, but Trump's stamp of 'Fake News' means nothing because he applied it to photos of the crowd at his inauguration.
We'll need someone other than Trump to call it fake to be sure.
This is newsworthy and relevant to nerds because the Privacy Act stops intelligence agencies from targeting non-citizen permanent residents.
This is huge. Non-citizen permanent residents should be very cautious about what they do on computers and phones from now on.
Term limits only ensure that you replace a Republican with another Republican, or a Democrat with another Democrat.
No, the real solution (IMO) is to attack gerrymandering. Make the districts unsafe for any party! Safe districts are a pox on democracy. Get some control on gerrymandering and you start to break down the walls of the echo chamber.
1). Congress;
2). The Senate;
3). The President.
That is all!
One single incident doesn't affect crime statistics much. Europe with Muslim violence can still be safer than the US. Humans are poor at judging such dangers, and it's getting worse.
There's reasons why I don't want to visit Iraq, and some of those reasons are why we're getting lots of refugees from there, and why it's important to have a compassionate policy towards refugees (which doesn't preclude the sort of rigorous vetting the US does).
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You know what we really can't afford? Our health care system. If we switched to one that was as expensive as the second most expensive system on the planet, we'd save nearly a trillion a year. That would more than cover NATO activities and much more besides. Let's look at the really big expenses first.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Fucking apt AF response. *slow clap*
Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser /. Tuesday February 14, 2017 @12:10AM
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Trump hasn't banned anyone either, they were just vetted with more attention
and plenty of "majority muslim" countries *aren't* on the list, in fact most of them aren't on the list. phrase is just a attention whoring device