Why is no one talking about the CLOUD Act that came out last night?

[acoravos]

I'm confused. When I read these pieces, the CLOUD Act seems like a huge deal, but it's no where on Hacker News. Can anyone share a TL;DR -- how concerned should I be?

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/congress-is-trying-to-sneak-through-a-new-bill-that-would-hand-police-in-the-us-and-around-the-world-extreme-spying-powers

https://gizmodo.com/congress-rushes-to-pass-spending-bill-packed-with-disas-1823988864

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/cloud-act-dangerous-expansion-police-snooping-cross-border-data

[thsowers]

Previous discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16585430

[inanutshellus]

Wow, as much as I dislike clickbait titles, that's an anti-clickbait title! No wonder I missed it the first time.

[lostmsu]

Well, it has Cloud Act in it, so you could find it before asking here.

[adamzk]

Because they trojan horse'd it in with the Facebook scandal.