Die USA sind mit Kanadas Streben nach digitaler Souveränität nicht zufrieden

The US can kick rocks, with all due lack of respect.

Boo-fucking-hoo. We don’t care

The US hates that we don’t want to give them our money and data anymore 

Boo fucking hoo, we should have begun this push 12 years ago

When I have to fill out our cyber security questionnaire forms for potential client proposals, they are increasingly asking if data will remain in Canada, instead of the usual ‚North American region‘ 

This is a change I was unaware of:

>The U.S. concern with Canada involves a Shared Services Canada proposal concerning government purchases of cloud services. Those services would be required to ensure that all data are processed, transmitted and stored exclusively in Canada, under the control of providers that are not subject to foreign laws that permit access without Canada’s prior written consent. That corporate control requirement is a direct response to the U.S. CLOUD Act. It means even a Canadian subsidiary cannot satisfy the standard if it – or its parent company – is subject to U.S. law.

This shuts out the US big tech firms from some government contracts. As we’ve seen this past year, targeting Trump directly (the Doug Ford ad) and big tech (digital services tax) seems to be what pisses the US off the most. Hopefully the Canadian government holds the line on this.

>What makes the U.S. report so revealing is that Canada is not an outlier. South Korea’s cloud security certification program effectively excludes foreign providers from government contracts. France requires that cloud providers handling sensitive state data be majority EU-owned and immune to non-EU laws. Japan subsidizes domestic companies to build sovereign AI cloud infrastructure, while largely shutting out foreign firms. Turkey, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and dozens of other countries maintain their own variations.

>The pattern is unmistakable: Countries are converging on laws that grant greater control over where their data lives and who has access. The mechanisms differ – certification walls, ownership thresholds, local storage mandates, outright bans – but many are moving in the same data policy direction. This alignment is not a coincidence. It reflects a growing recognition that data are critical infrastructure and that exclusive dependence on foreign cloud providers creates legal and geopolitical vulnerabilities. By legislating extraterritorial access to data, the U.S. opened the door for other countries to pursue alternatives.

It’s all fun games being integrated with your imperial hegemonic neighbour as long as they are friendly towards you and are governed by rational, steady, and just people.

None of that is true at the moment. Canada’s economic integration with the hostile gong show down south is a major threat and liability.

Pound sand America

Oh well.

Kettle , here is pot.

And yes we should part ways if they cannot respect our laws.

Then may be we are on the right path

The US has proven that they will weaponize any sort of leverage that they can right now to try to get some sort of concession out of a country.

Why would we let them have access to and potential leverage of data from Canadian companies or the government?

The US is not a reliable partner at this point.

The US is unhappy about everything.

Its not just Canada. After the world realized every tech company was US owned and in the pocket of the Republican party, we collectively understood the scam. For decades, the entire world accepted comfort and features for selling our private data and tracking all our movements. I think its fair to say: fuck you tech companies.

Fuck the US