Re: [Add] What to do in this potential working group

[Vittorio Bertola <[e-mail]>]

> Il 23 agosto 2019 02:23 Adam Roach <[e-mail]> ha scritto:
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> On 8/22/19 8:53 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > As a non-US citizen, I strongly disagree that the argument that we are putting all eggs in US baskets is not a strong argument. The US government formally gives me 0 expectation of privacy and they dictate policy to US entities. It is worse informally as we’ve seen time and time again (echelon, Snowden etc)
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> Are you talking about Canada?

I think that the IETF should not go down the road of making judgements about specific countries and their policies, but rather stick to the basic principle of sovereignty, which has kept the world together for the last few centuries: each country has the right to determine the rules for its own citizens, and each citizen has the right to live (and access the Internet) under their own country's rules and not under some other country's ones.

So it is a reasonable concern for non-US citizens to be worried about their data going to the US, independently from whether their own laws are better or worse than those of the US.

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