Trump administration 2024-2028

[Brad Sallows]

Making the case for digital sovereignty for us.

Making the case to make it harder for any government in Canada to get information from any company, also.

 

[HavokFour]

Making the case to make it harder for any government in Canada to get information from any company, also.

If no threats were made, good? I'm not seeing the RCMP getting involved or any other Canadian agency, so I think it's safe to assume for now this is more about hurt feelings.

 

[brihard]

Making the case to make it harder for any government in Canada to get information from any company, also.

Getting data from foreign hosted service providers is already very difficult. Generally they won’t play ball with production orders for anything beyond basic subscriber data. To get info as evidence for a criminal investigating, we frequently have to go through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty process, which can easily take upwards of a year to see results. If there’s imminent risk of harm we can generally use other approaches, but for normal criminal investigations without an imminent threat to life or public safety, the situation already sucks. So, we shouldn’t let that fear shy us away from data sovereignty policy and legislation.

 

[Navy_Pete]

Getting data from foreign hosted service providers is already very difficult. Generally they won’t play ball with production orders for anything beyond basic subscriber data. To get info as evidence for a criminal investigating, we frequently have to go through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty process, which can easily take upwards of a year to see results. If there’s imminent risk of harm we can generally use other approaches, but for normal criminal investigations without an imminent threat to life or public safety, the situation already sucks. So, we shouldn’t let that fear shy us away from data sovereignty policy and legislation.

Meanwhile there isn't even any allegation of criminal proceedings in this case, and actually seems to be against the US First Amendment generally.

 

[ytz]

I would love to see requirements for social media companies to host the data and content of Canadian origin users and subscribers in Canada. And then have EU GDPR type rules.