“The European Commission proposed Tuesday that national law enforcement authorities be allowed to access data stored on tech companies’ servers in other EU countries or the US, to speed cross-border criminal investigations,” reports Natalia Drozdiak as she weighs in on the EU’s attempt to aligning rules and contain crime in the union. In the United States, the Cloud Act is a federal law that enables law-enforcement warrants to apply to data that tech companies store overseas. The EU’s proposals enforces “tech companies to have to respond to requests from authorities within 10 days, or in urgent cases, within 6 hours.” This new law emphasized a prominent issues that both US and EU governments face with big firms as they now store more and more data around the world. Although internet companies in the EU welcomed the government's efforts, many privacy activists are against this new action. They claim that this would violate their rights and put them and their data (information) at risk.
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Zohra Ouhabi
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