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 <skquinn@rushpost.com>