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Data stored in Canada can be subject to foreign courts, government paper warns
(halifax.citynews.ca)
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
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This isn't new. European companies and governments have been avoiding US cloud providers ever since the CLOUD Act was introduced seven years ago.
For more information on the subject, Microsoft has been fighting this battle, largely unsuccessfully, for years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_States
It's also why they had Azure Germany - an instance where they were not actually in control and data could remain sovereign. I believe it's now defunct, or at least restricted.
Sadly they dont. At least not nearly to the extend that they should be.