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The Gambia doesn’t have either kind of agreement with the US, and the SCA doesn’t include exceptions for international justice efforts. It’s true that there are lots of cases where we wouldn’t want to see Facebook indiscriminately handing over user data to governments, no matter how serious-seeming the request.
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