Patriot Act Dampening Cloud Computing?

Julie188 writes "Governments are turning the Internet into a cyberspace reflection of real-world geographic conflicts. One report says that the Canadian government is forbidding its IT organizations to use services that store or host the government's data outside their sovereign territory. They especially cannot use services where the data is stored in the United States because of fears over the Patriot Act. What kinds of jurisdiction issues might people face — think Google cooperating with the Chinese government — as cloud computing becomes the norm and your data is stored in 'offshore parts' of the cloud?"

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News flash: Canadians don't trust Americans.

[Anonymous Coward]

News flash: Canadians don't trust Americans. Why would we?

You torture our citizens (Arar, Khadr, etc.) You fail to live up to the obligations of NAFTA (softwood lumber, etc). You keep trying to take our natural resources (water, oil, etc) and rape what little we have left of our sovereignty (Security and Prosperity Partnership, etc).

We were with you against the Nazis (thanks for showing up by the way, even if it was a few years late) but this pre-emptive "war on terror" is ... well, a little scary. We came with you to Afghanistan (Remember Afghanistan? That's where Bin Laden was hiding. Remember Bin Laden?) and we're still there, even though we got a little turned off when our first 4 casualties were from an American bomber (the Tarnak Farm incident). For future reference when command says "hold fire" it means DON'T SHOOT. Even if you are amphetamines.

We're really sorry about that whole 9/11 thing (we lost some too you know), but that WAS 6.5 years ago. And honestly, when you say the word "terrorist" to a Canadian, the first thing they picture is Bush.

Y'all have really blown it these last few years, so please forgive us if we keep our distance until you clean up your mess.