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I’m still curious if they “weren’t inside the U.S.”, how they are being charged with a law that is only applicable to…the U.S.

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Some U.S. laws are extraterrestrial, such as murder, crimes against children, tax laws, etc.

Also the US CLOUD act: If you do business in the US, you have to give American authorities access to warrantlessly search any device not in the US that you have access to.

(I heard Europe and China passed the same laws. The EU has intelligence sharing agreements with the US, so I guess American authorities can just have the EU pull the data for US citizens in the US and forward it back home. I'm not a lawyer. It'd be nice if I'm wrong.)

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