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by carboncopy 3784 days ago
This will have to be ratified by the Senate, DoC will not be in charge of policing this.

This agreement was made at the request of senators.

Under the U.S. Constitution, all foreign treaties must be ratified by the Senate. This will carry the full weight of the law.

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And we've seen that US laws aren't worth the paper they're printed on when it comes to curbing the mass surveilance apparatus. Leaving the policing of their own hungry three-letter agencies to the US is a laughable proposal.