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Govt. Joins Net Treaty That May Limit Rights in U.S., Overseas
by Shreema Mehta
Aug. 11 – The US Senate last week ratified a treaty requiring participating countries to share citizens' personal digital data and aid each others' criminal investigations, an arrangement privacy advocates say will amount to increasing surveillance of Internet users and the enforcement of foreign laws in the United States.
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