Key points: - Data from the Government's new COVIDSafe tracing app may be currently obtainable by US law enforcement via the CLOUD Act - While COVIDSafe data will remain in Australia, it is held by US-based company Amazon, which can be legally compelled to provide that data to US law enforcement - Amazon was awarded the contract for the COVIDSafe app data storage over several Australian-based cloud services Global tech giant Amazon may not be able to protect Australian Government data held in its Australian servers — including data gathered by the COVID-19 tracing app released on Sunday — from US subpoenas, according to legal experts and crossbenchers. The COVIDSafe app is designed to help identify who a COVID-19 positive person has met while infected, speeding up the contact-tracing process. The Government has defended its decision, revealed last week by the ABC, to award the app's data-storage contract to Amazon cloud subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), a US-incorporated business subject to the US CLOUD Act. The CLOUD Act is a 2018 US law which requires American cloud services to produce, under subpoena, data held by them regardless of where in the world that data is stored. The Australian Government initially told ABC News data held by Amazon would be protected from the CLOUD Act, but Australia's peak legal body, the Law Council, disagreed, saying that under current arrangements the appeal avenues under the CLOUD Act "would not have application" in Australia. [...] The Government rejected the concerns, saying its data held by AWS would be protected because of a provision in the CLOUD Act that allowed US companies to apply to refuse or modify US subpoenas seeking the data of foreign governments, if providing such information violated the law in that foreign country. However, such appeals are only available if a country is designated under the US CLOUD Act as a "qualifying foreign government". A spokesman for the Prime Minister confirmed over the weekend that Australia was not yet designated a "qualifying" jurisdiction under US law but insisted the data would remain in Australia. [...] To be recognised as a "qualifying foreign government", Australia and the US are required to sign a so-called "executive agreement" under the CLOUD Act, which must involve special legislation in Australia. Negotiations for that agreement were first made public during a meeting between Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton and US Attorney-General William Barr on October 7 last year. "This is the way of the future between like-minded countries," Mr Dutton announced in a statement that day. Continua su: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-28/covidsafe-tracing-app-data-may-not-be... Ma nel frattempo, indovinate un po' chi sta inviando proprio ad Amazon i voti, i compiti, le grafie etc... di milioni di bambini, ragazzi e giovani italiani? REGEL! Il Registro Elettronico più diffuso nella scuola italiana! TUTTI i registri elettronici dei diversi istituti sono ospitati da AWS e nemmeno si sono scomodati a comprare dei certificati TLS seri, si basano tutti su certificati LetsEncrypt rilasciati a *.regel.it! Noi ce l'abbiamo un "qualifying foreign government"? L'Italia è abbastanza like-minded con gli USA? Insomma, siamo stati bravi coloni o no? Giacomo