Romanian Cybersecurity Law Will Allow Warrantless Access To Data 62
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.
Idiots (Score:5, Insightful)
because the country is a hub for IT outsourcing
Not anymore.
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The "Microsoft controls the servers in Ireland, so can hoover up everything they hold" case indicates that if a single person in Romania can get the data then the Romanian police can get the data.
I think the South African Police might have something to say about that. Just as an example, of course... http://www.datacentermap.com/s... [datacentermap.com]
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What are you talking about? "The Interview" will probably make a lot less money because all of the movie theaters that 90% of people go to aren't showing it. Some of the leaked emails are very embarrassing and will probably cost them a lot in lost goodwill with business partners, which will translate into less profits.
Goodwill? In Hollywood?
You must be joking.
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From what I hear, the movie is crap anyway, so Sony is likely making more money off of it because of all the hype and press surrounding it. (They're selling it as pay-per-view on their own website.) The whole incident may have even been orchestrated by Sony as a giant publicity scheme, who knows.
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You were doing just fine until you got to The whole incident may have even been orchestrated by Sony as a giant publicity scheme, who knows.
Given the scope and content of those mails, a decision like that would have been in the mails themselves.
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You don't think they could have filtered that stuff out of the mails?
I know, it's a stretch, I just put it out there as a remote possibility. Conspiracy theories aren't always wrong, every once in a while they turn out to be true.
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I must had also all leaked information is usable by providers, customers, shareholders, anyone in the future to negociate more tightly agreements, if any at all, with Sony. This will also cost them money. I believe you don't have a faint idea of the magnitude and impact of this for Sony Pictures.
Suppose you are a script, scenarist, producer, director or any other important job in the making of a movie. How would you feel doing business with Sony given the way they protect your work? It is very likely someo
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Re:Idiots (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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Not even all American SENATORS believe in that "playbook". Never mind the actual population.
Great! (Score:1)
On second thought, it pumps hard currency into the economy, so I guess not.
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Re:LOL fascists (Score:5, Insightful)
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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Outsourcing agreements... (Score:3)
Remember when writing outsourcing agreements that law changes could happen, and should allow you to void the agreement.
Ceaucescu... (Score:2, Informative)
...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.
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Allegedly Erich Mielke (former head of the East German Stasi) said concerning the various forms of surveillance we're getting used against us "If we had these things, we'd still have communism today!"
Well, since we have them, we still have capitalism...
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What fascinates me to no end is that the people here still believe what they're told by media and politics. People actually do believe them.
Maybe because we don't have any "West-TV" that could tell us that our emperors have no clothes.
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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 fea
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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
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Your DATA are belonging to us (Score:1)
The difference between Romania and the US is, (Score:3)
Hold on a minute (Score:2)
Like U.S. (Score:4, Informative)
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. [themarketisnotrandom.com]
European Convention on Human Rights (Score:2)
This law seems to be in contravention of several sections of the European Convention on Human Rights which Romania is party to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]