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Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US
davecb writes "The Toronto Star's lead article today is Canada courting U.S. web giants in wake of NSA spy scandal, an effort to convince them their customer data is safer here. This follows related moves like Cisco moving R&D to Toronto. Industry Canada will neither confirm nor deny that European and U.S. companies are negotiating to move confidential data away from the U.S. This critically depends on recent blocking legislation to get around cases like U.S. v. Bank of Nova Scotia, where U.S. courts 'extradited' Canadian bank records to the U.S. Contrary to Canadian law, you understand ..."
Blame Canada!
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
You know the Canadians will roll over on you, eh?
Please, sir (I say "sir", and I apologise if you are a "ma'am", ma'am), but on behalf of all Canadians, I urge you to consider that it is "politeness, pleasantries, civility, and common courtesy" that you misinterpret as "rolling over".
We simply rush to the front and open the door for you, sir/ma'am.
I hope I haven't offended you in any way, and I apologise for taking your time.
Thank you, and all the best, Godspeed.
If you think that sucks, did you know there's an entire political party organized around the belief that companies won't screw their customers as long as there are no regulations and laws which require bribing legislators to get around? Who'd have thought that removing those laws and regulations without any need to bribe anybody would have the opposite effect removing them on pain of bribe would have.