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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by ogre_codes on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:37PM (#24013690)
> Does anyone else remember when housing data in US severs was considered less private than alternatives?

Right now much of Europe considers storing data in the US to be less private than hosting it locally. The US is certainly not in the same category as Russia or China, but it's not great either.

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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by sandworm101 on Friday July 31, 2020 @08:48PM (#24016201)
Canada too.
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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by 3pt14159 on Friday July 31, 2020 @09:39PM (#24016532)
Even so, Canadians trust Americans far more than the Chinese. If they move everything over then it may stop mass bans across the West.
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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by tonyarkles on Saturday August 01, 2020 @07:36PM (#24024888)
That’s probably true for the general population, but not so much for our privacy legislation. Certain categories of data, for some provincial governments, absolutely must reside in Canada and can’t be hosted in the US. Among the various reasons is the Patriot Act. Canadian laws specify certain circumstances in which a data breach must be disclosed to the user, and the Patriot Act (via NSLs) can mandate that the breach not be disclosed to the user. Canadian companies hosting their data in the US cannot simultaneously comply with the law in both countries.
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