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# Legal Sources

Sources can be grouped mainly by urgency;
some laws have been on the books so long,
they come across as nonsense,
while others were made yesterday
to do damage tomorrow.

Legal sources also generally obey some purpose;
they are useless unless applied and pursued
by some group or agent.

I aim for this guide page to include some summary
of the purpose or possible consequence
of each legal source.

Hence, adding something to this page
requires a base layer of concern;
and by spending energy here in curación,
prepares for more thorough research methods to come.

### Source Classes

When possible, this guide builds upon sources
produced by the CRS - Congressional Research Service;
those sources are labeled `CRS describes:`,
and summaries are likely direct copies.

Emerging legislación is commonly discussed in Congressional Committee dialogue; such sources are labeled using `House/ Some Committee dialogue:`,
or `Senate/ Some Committee dialogue:`.

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## Supreme Urgency

### Spying on Neighbors

* CRS describes: [FISA: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act][FISA]

  > Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978. FISA provides a statutory framework for government agencies to obtain authorization to gather foreign intelligence by means of (1) electronic surveillance, (2) physical searches, (3) pen registers and trap and trace (PR/TT) devices (which record or decode dialing, routing, addressing, or signaling information), or (4) the production of certain business records. 

[FISA]: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11451

* CRS describes: [CLOUD: Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data][CLOUD]

  > Law enforcement officials in the United States and abroad frequently seek access to electronic communications, such as emails and social media posts, stored on servers and in data centers in foreign countries. Because the architecture of the internet allows technology companies to store data at a great distance from the physical location of their customers, electronic communications that could serve as evidence of a crime often are not housed in the same country where the crime occurred. This disconnect has caused both the United States and foreign governments to seek access to data stored outside their territorial jurisdictions. In the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, Congress enacted one of the first significant changes in decades to U.S. law governing cross-border access by law enforcement to electronic communications held by private companies.

[CLOUD]: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10125

* House/ Homeland Security dialogue: [Global Cyber Threats to the Homeland][cyberhome]

	> The purpose of this hearing is to examine the growing cyber threats to our homeland, the actors, the tactics, and the trends. Specifically, we're going to delve into the risk posed by the People's Republic of China, which has burrowed into our critical infrastructure and compromised our telecommunications 
networks.
  > We will also discuss a threat posed by our other 3 nation-state adversaries who leverage cyber space: Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

[cyberhome]: https://www.congress.gov/event/119th-congress/house-event/LC74375/text

* [DPF: Data Privacy Framework](https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/Program-Overview)

  > developed to facilitate transatlantic commerce by providing U.S. organizations with reliable mechanisms for personal data transfers to the United States from the European Union / European Economic Area, the United Kingdom (and Gibraltar), and Switzerland that are consistent with EU, UK, and Swiss law.
  > Organizations participating in the EU-U.S. DPF may receive personal data from the European Union / European Economic Area 

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## Daily Business

* CRS describes: [Data Centers](https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12899)

  > AI systems, including their development, model training, deployment, operation, applications, and services, rely on an information technology (IT) infrastructure with components of hardware, software, networks, data, and facilities. Data centers are the primary means to house much of this IT backbone. Internet-based remote computing services (i.e., cloud computing) enable AI developers and users to access computing resources hosted in geographically distributed data centers. Not only may AI innovation and competition hinge on the availability of and access to advanced, secure, and sustainable computing resources, but such IT infrastructure may also be deemed "a strategic national asset."