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CLOUD Act: Technology, Measurement & Companies

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act or CLOUD Act (H.R. 4943) is a United States federal law enacted in 2018 by the passing of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, PL 115–141, Division V.

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CLOUD Act topic overview

The analysis highlights Technology, Measurement and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around CLOUD Act.

Related topics
30
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
35
Extracted relationships
65
Related term clusters
17
Bridge connections
35

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Passage and aftermath · 9 topics
Support and opposition · 8 topics
Background · 6 topics
Provisions · 4 topics
Overview · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Acts amended
Stored Communications Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Effective
March 23, 2018
Enacted by
the 115th United States Congress
Public law
Pub. L. 115–141 (text) (PDF), Division V
Titles amended
18
U.S.C. sections amended
2523

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Overview

Background

Provisions

Support and opposition

Passage and aftermath

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Advanced semantic analysis

How CLOUD Act connects Entity context

The extracted context around CLOUD Act shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, CLOUD Act → FBI, Federal Bureau, Investigation, Ireland, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp, Microsoft's, MLAT, SCA, Supreme Court, The CLOUD Act, The FBI, United States Another extracted example is CLOUD Act → American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Apple, AWS, Department, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fourth Amendment, Google, Human Rights Watch, Justice, Microsoft, The CLOUD Act. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

CLOUD Act

Top relations

related to background · 13
CLOUD Act → FBI, Federal Bureau, Investigation, Ireland, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp, Microsoft's, MLAT, SCA, Supreme Court, The CLOUD Act, The FBI, United States
related to Support and opposition · 12
CLOUD Act → American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Apple, AWS, Department, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fourth Amendment, Google, Human Rights Watch, Justice, Microsoft, The CLOUD Act
related to International reactions · 10
CLOUD Act → Amazon Web Services, China's National Intelligence Law, Data Protection, EDPS, Federal Police, GDPR, Supervisor, The European Data Protection, The German Commissioner, US
related to Passage and aftermath · 10
CLOUD Act → Congress, Consolidated Appropriations Act, Department, Justice, March, Microsoft Corp, On April, Supreme Court, United States, United States Congress
related to Provisions · 10
CLOUD Act → Attorney General, Department, FAQ, Justice, MLATs, Secretary, State, The CLOUD Act, United Kingdom, United States
related to Extraterritorial scope · 3
CLOUD Act → Courts, The CLOUD Act, United States
Acronyms .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(colloquial) · 1
CLOUD Act → CLOUD Act
Acts amended · 1
CLOUD Act → Stored Communications Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Effective · 1
CLOUD Act → March 23, 2018
Enacted by · 1
CLOUD Act → the 115th United States Congress

Important terminology

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Important terminology

act data cloud united states law stored microsoft sca companies foreign warrant provide federal 115 141 privacy enacted communications 2018

CLOUD Act relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 65 structured relationships around CLOUD Act. Examples in this analysis include CLOUD Act → Acronyms .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(colloquial) → CLOUD Act and CLOUD Act → Acts amended → Stored Communications Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CLOUD ActAcronyms .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(colloquial)CLOUD Act1.00infobox
CLOUD ActActs amendedStored Communications Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act1.00infobox
CLOUD ActEffectiveMarch 23, 20181.00infobox
CLOUD ActEnacted bythe 115th United States Congress1.00infobox
CLOUD ActPublic lawPub. L. 115–141 (text) (PDF), Division V1.00infobox
CLOUD ActTitles amended181.00infobox
CLOUD ActU.S.C. sections amended25231.00infobox
CLOUD Actrelated to backgroundThe CLOUD Act0.60section
CLOUD Actrelated to backgroundFederal Bureau0.60section
CLOUD Actrelated to backgroundInvestigation0.60section
CLOUD Actrelated to backgroundFBI0.60section
CLOUD Actrelated to backgroundSCA0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around CLOUD Act bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Cloud, Data and Technology. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • CLOUD Act
    • Cloud
    • Data
    • Technology
    • Companies
    • Stored
    • Enacted
    • States
    • Privacy
    • United
    • Warrant
    • Foreign
    • Sca
  • cloud act
    • Cloud
    • Data
    • States
    • United
    • Technology
    • Stored
    • Privacy
    • Companies
    • Law
    • Communications
    • Enacted
    • Sca
  • consolidated appropriations act, 2018
    • Cloud
    • States
    • United
    • Data
    • Stored
    • Privacy
    • Companies
    • Law
    • Communications
    • Technology
    • Sca
    • Congress
  • stored communications act
    • Cloud
    • Amended
    • Stored
    • Enforcement
    • Pdf
    • Warrant
    • States
    • Servers
    • United
    • Data
    • Privacy
    • Companies
  • microsoft corp. v. united states
    • United
    • Sca
    • Department
    • Justice
    • Technology
    • Warrant
    • Congress
    • Enacted
    • Fbi
    • Federal
    • Stored
    • Servers
  • 115th united states congress
    • United
    • Lawful
    • Law
    • Congress
    • Enacted
    • Fbi
    • Federal
    • International
    • Passage
    • States
    • Use
    • Warrant
  • european data protection supervisor
    • Cloud
    • Stored
    • Foreign
    • Countries
    • Law
    • States
    • Provide
    • United
    • Sca
    • Enforcement
    • Passage
    • Requested
  • german commissioner for data protection
    • Cloud
    • Stored
    • Foreign
    • Countries
    • Law
    • States
    • Provide
    • United
    • Sca
    • Enforcement
    • Passage
    • Requested

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For CLOUD Act, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects CLOUD Act with Passage and aftermath. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
CLOUD Act — Passage and aftermath · splits 26 ⟂ 10
CLOUD Act — Support and opposition · splits 27 ⟂ 9
CLOUD Act — Background · splits 29 ⟂ 7
CLOUD Act — Provisions · splits 31 ⟂ 5
CLOUD Act — Overview · splits 32 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

CLOUD Act

Nodes36
Edges35
Triples65
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around CLOUD Act to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Technology, Measurement & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — CLOUD Act · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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