US President Barack Obama signed a law that extends privacy protection “not only to American citizens but also to foreigners” of allied countries, who will be able to sue the US government if their data will be revealed in an illegal manner. This was announced by the White House. Called ‘Judicial Redress Act bill’, the law, which had a broad bipartisan support in Congress, is aimed in fact to rebuild confidence among European allies after the scandal of Datagate, mass controls the NSA reported by ‘mole Edward Snoden.
a scandal that the White House has tried to close with Us Freedom Act, the law that takes away the NSA can indiscriminately pick up the telephone data of millions of Americans and store them in its database. But apparently it was not enough, as evidenced by the diplomatic row between Italy and the United States broke out after the latest revelations of WikiLeaks on American espionage against Silvio Berlusconi when he was prime minister in 2011, shortly before his resignation. Water under the bridge, has hinted American diplomacy. But now Obama sends a further signal, also to reassure the world of business, perhaps in view of the TTIP signing the agreement on free trade between the EU and USA.
Obama called the law, which protecting citizens’ data, a key measure to protect consumer data that will help bring business in the US. For the president, who also signed another law to ban taxes on access internet, it is a “step” in the era of information to “ensure that even if we protect the security of the American people, we are also aware of the privacy that we love so much. ” A battle which nevertheless leaves open the chapter of the tug of war over privacy between Apple and government for the release of an iPhone in the investigation into the massacre of San Bernardino.
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