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Canada Wants To Keep Federal Data Within National Borders (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Stack: Canada has released its latest federal cloud adoption strategy, now available for public comment, which includes policy concerning the storing of sensitive government information on Canadian citizens within national borders. The newly-published [Government of Canada Cloud Adoption Strategy] requires that only data which the government has categorized as "unclassified," or harmless to national and personal security, will be allowed outside of the country. This information will still be subject to strict encryption rules. The new strategy, which has been in development over the last year, stipulates that all personal data stored by the government on Canadian citizens, such as social insurance numbers and critical federal information, must be stored in Canada-based data centers in order to retain "sovereign control."
Translation: the Canadian government wants to be able to spy on its citizens easily.
Tobias was charged with violating the Statistics Act, but eventually acquitted.
- so that's the actual problem, that there is such a thing as a 'Statistics Act'. Government has usurped the power over the people and is punishing them for not complying with the demand to be counted for whatever purposes are listed there.
AFAIC Canadian people are not Free People and the Canadian government is an oppressive regime.
As to this new idea of demanding that the federal data is kept within national borders, that's just another way to usurp power by the government and to create more controls and to steal more money from the private sector.
You can't handle the truth.