US told to quit sharing data with human rights-violating surveillance regime

Which one, you ask?

That'd be the UK

UK authorities should not be granted access to data held by American companies because British laws don't meet human rights obligations, nine nonprofits have said.

In a letter to the US Department of Justice, organisations including Human Rights Watch and the Electronic Frontier Foundation set out their concerns about the UK's surveillance and data retention regimes.

They argue that the nation doesn't adhere to human rights obligations and commitments, and therefore it should not be allowed to request data from US companies under the CLOUD Act, which Congress slipped into the Omnibus Spending Bill earlier this year.

The law allows US government to sign formal, bilateral agreements with other countries setting standards for cross-border investigative requests for digital evidence related to serious crime and terrorism.

It requires that these countries "adhere to applicable international human rights obligations and commitments or demonstrate respect for international universal human rights". The civil rights groups say the UK fails to make the grade.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/28/cloud_act_uk_human_rights_violation/