That's just an egregious example, but there were also literal international trade treaties where the US basically imposed adoption of the DMCA as a condition.
Also the fact that many major tech companies are American means that US laws are basically enforced on all of their users, which is super crazy.
> 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.
This includes foreign based subsidiaries!
So if the US Gov decides that Facebook needs to give something over, everything and everyone owned by Facebook, everywhere around the world, needs to comply. So Facebook Zambia needs to hand over the data to Facebook US. On paper there are some protections, but I'd really, really want to see how well they're enforced (I doubt it).
Where they basically say: "yeah, it's true, we'll fight in a court of law on your behalf, because otherwise a huge chunk of you in other countries would never use us".
Also the fact that many major tech companies are American means that US laws are basically enforced on all of their users, which is super crazy.
Including stuff like...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
> 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.
This includes foreign based subsidiaries!
So if the US Gov decides that Facebook needs to give something over, everything and everyone owned by Facebook, everywhere around the world, needs to comply. So Facebook Zambia needs to hand over the data to Facebook US. On paper there are some protections, but I'd really, really want to see how well they're enforced (I doubt it).
It's so bad cloud providers have pages about it:
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/cloud-act/
Where they basically say: "yeah, it's true, we'll fight in a court of law on your behalf, because otherwise a huge chunk of you in other countries would never use us".