On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 7:39 PM, John <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Im not sure you are reading section 14 correctly. It makes reference to > Privacy Act (Privacy Act of 1974) and the privacy policy of the federal > agencies involved in immigration enforcement and law enforcement agencies. > IE the government can freely share information between agencies with > regards to non-citizens. If you look at the Privacy Act, it lists twelve > cases where data is permitted to be disclosed by federal agencies, with the > new order it allows all governmental data to be shared between governmental > agencies. Again none of this pertains to the Civilian sector. The Privacy > Shield really has nothing to do with the root issue. United States > governmental agencies sharing information about non-citizens with each > other. In the context of the actual document it is referencing sharing data > about non-citizens who are not legal residents of the United States, who > are illegally in the country. There are plenty of news reports, available with a moment on Google, that discuss the possibility that this executive order prevents the Commerce department from fulfilling its enforcement role in the law that replaced the Safe Harbor data protection agreement between the EU and the U.S. This would invalidate the new agreement, jeopardizing the authorization of US companies to handle data on European residents. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
