The agreement allows law enforcement officials to go directly to tech companies in the other's country to seek electronic evidence in cases of terrorism, child sexual abuse, and cybercrime.
The United States and the United Kingdom agreed Thursday to allow their law enforcement officials to go directly to tech companies in the other's country to seek electronic evidence of crimes, accelerating a process that currently takes as long as two years.
Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel delivers her keynote speech on the third day of the annual Conservative Party conference at the Manchester Central convention complex, in Manchester, north-west England on Oct. 1, 2019.Attorney General William Barr and the U.K. Home Secretary, Priti Patel, signed the agreement at the British ambassador's residence in Washington.
The agreement is the first under the CLOUD Act, passed by Congress in 2018. It authorized the U.S. to enter into agreements with other countries, lifting each nation's legal barriers to the other's access to electronic data in certain criminal investigations. Under previous mutual legal assistance agreements, the process took at least several months to work its way through government bureaucracies.
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