On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 02:26 +0000, jim bell wrote: > Generally speaking, American Federal laws are not applicable outside > the United States (and its territories) unless the law explicitly says > so. The term is called "extraterritorial jurisdiction" > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction I am > not aware of anything that would prohibit a person in one of these > companies to visit Canada, or Mexico, or perhaps even a foreign > embassy, or some other nation, and then publicly announcing the > existence of this secret surveillance, immune from the reach of the > law.
The problem is that the company's operations in the US will remain under US jurisdiction, and that is the most likely avenue of enforcement--against the company, not the individuals leaking the info from the shores of Vancouver or Cancún. I do agree in principle that the information needs to get out there, and for the US government to try to keep it secret is at least a bit un-American, if not flagrantly so. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com>
