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by troupo 1012 days ago
> And not spend so much of our time worrying about Facebook targeting me with ads for iPhones, because they know I am in the markt for an iPhone. That's pretty meh.

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The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil

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Governments increasingly rely on the vast amounts of data stored by private companies to target specific people or groups of people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act