-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 08/26/2014 01:31 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: > On 2014-08-26 1:10 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: >> >> Thanks for your email! I'm curious to know what jurisdiction >> this data is going to be stored in. If the answer is the US, >> what steps have we taken to ensure that this data will be safe >> from being accessed by the US government through a subpoena? I >> think given what we currently know about the hostile practices >> employed by the US government in order to spy on non-US citizens, >> as a non-US citizen I would be extremely uncomfortable if this >> gives them a legal way to access this data. > > For what it's worth, any server Mozilla controls is subject to the > American judicial system - FISA court orders, National Security > Letters, regular old subpoenas, the works - just by virtue of > Mozilla being based in California. That was settled in 1988, in the > "Bank Of Nova Scotia Vs. United States" case. > > The case: > http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=487&invol=250 > > See also: http://www.insideprivacy.com/PatriotActQA.pdf > > I share your concerns, but I don't think we can avoid being subject > to the discovery laws, however egregious, of any country we have an > office in.
Perhaps that can be enough of a reason to kill this catastrophically bad idea while allowing its proponents to save face? zw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJT/MV2AAoJEJH8wytnaapkb9UQAIauIRqwnFON7ccD6QC2B6+Y Uq22OMVyjmGwRK6zbjTPQYmgHGTCHuFZK1QHhqKKdHzjSxwD0hEOtknLXhmrPEXx Di0whKCqOJqFkz4YoJmeHc+psAe3AIAFgHEogyGsgHgUo9s/iblH2TorAZKJoS26 8BIWMlWuGE18z6afeyVDkSTc6/HyjXM6tZ3eZLWcFDeSCSyqAZBuFR7JeWPiBwsv CPkWLMfxFPbNNCJ+tLl4NTbTtkZEmXUl4vZLeHjiFydoLamOmRpm5sgll2NEUe6B FsSAwEijU+nC8j3iFuGAICWv/pb606N2ZLf8K8/JTJTqgdnrVCr1dt3ZTJdX74eW yH4jJzijFNoW/dFoTCPb5yOho/3kJyEr2hqC8X3hLE6pWtTJqcJ7g/33vlxyZSUt 1nIFC+sg6PxhpIplN3f9F/BUQN8LF1D9ATuONwIvWsU+XOKT66QHM9ECXiZdLSEL HUAklQhCmHrdDxTbe179+7ZNsZzsBOYjj10vj5ljGrkTxjvKvACIkWM+WVIK55th dcs1fnQj7xk+SabRibKrgXRvObvsFcx5TedlMa6Vgj9hKvRa9AR+V22m/EPIizD5 JEBd9UtKjQP+YzmQB6BAvq8U0Eh/sdvBs3Gs8cFtpmpWoQRlJ6XfzG8D+aPJ3Zul LiI8RiN4n5uOlIWNYPb9 =xrLO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
