“Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty”
… or how to lose government contracts all over the world in one easy step. 🖕🏾🖕🏾
Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.
not cool Microsoft...seriously not cool!
Canada needs more sovereign data centers asap
Sell your Microsoft shares quickly.
I ditched Microsoft as soon as I left the corporate world. Don’t ever plan on going back.
Say you want to tank your Corporation, without saying you want to tank your MAGA stinking Corporation…
They admitted this in a recent case in France too.
Yeahhhh...that's was some stupid shit to say.🤦🏽♀️ It's been a real fvcking disappointment watching these companies cave to that POS. Some of us will NEVER forget.😔😡
Regrettably, lock in is MS’s ally. It's a good starting point to engage in discussion and come to a consensus that something needs to be done.
Remember when Bill Gates could have personally paid for every person to be vaccinated and got a profit off it, instead? www.thenation.com/article/econ...
The billionaire’s pandemic investments, like much of his work, remain a secret.
No wonder Microsoft has such a shitty Global reputation.
This begs the question if there's a point where international data law is becoming a spaghetti like law, the same way international financial & investment law is 🍝
@tallgirl6234.bsky.social you might want to see this
We need to copy the German model a little more. Data, especially sensitive data must be geo-fenced. So German companies set up their own intranets to protect data
They’ve list their mf’ing minds!
I mean just imagine, other companies employing different policies in each country they do business in to suit the laws of each country they do business in! That’s just crazy, who would ever-🤪
Ha. Fuck that.
The Linux people have been warning everybody about Microsoft for decades.
Canada realizing they are just minions of the US Empire.
Isn't this the same argument people use against China
#ElbowsUp Canada! Take those MFers down!
US Law stops at US Borders.
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Not just that. Hopefully a trillion a law suits.
Microsoft finding a new way to pull a Target.
They are pulling this same shit against Brazil
Yeah, no.
Saw that coming lol
If only ...
Year of Linux on the Desktop?!
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Or --
how many people want to #shortmicrosoft ?
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Also feels like a good way to get sued (or worse) in the countries you're doing business and breaking their laws by leaking customers' information.
Presumably if the infrastructure and data are located outside of the US we have nothing to worry about?
You know what’s worse? At the periphery of capitalism you will still have dozens of governments making contracts
Everyone to Microsoft
Bye bye micronuts
Microsoft is working hard to destroy their company as fast as they can.
Goodbye cloud services run by US companies.
US law? What's that? We have an adjudicated rapist and child predator talking about an illegal third term and denying people a Constitutionally guaranteed right to due process. Laws don't matter anymore.
Ok, As an angry citizen and Canadian, I want my data in the hands of a trusted resource. Can someone tell we what alternate choices there are to replace Microsoft as my operating system. I need to get this right.
if the United States were to issue a legal request to Microsoft for the data of a Canadian citizen hosted in Canada, Microsoft would comply regardless of Canadian law--nice.
NOTHING takes precedence over Canadian sovereignty. How bout get fucked Microsoft.
If governments all over the world had balls and pussies, that is.
U.S. Billionaires and their puppet politicians are DESPERATE to control the whole world. It's going to backfire.
Good bye profits. What a pile of greedy lawless American people, its deserved if we fail. We the People asleep at the wheel tryin to make ends meet &we let these fucks in. Texas is a shining example of democracy in play, right? Who could trust them? Not even their own.
Wrong again Microsoft.
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Only if countries stand up for themselves and take away contracts. There is however an opportunity for a major company that does respect national laws in countries in which it operates.
That used to be all listed companies.
Elbows. Up. #FuckMicrosoft
U.S. needs to rein in these bloated tech bros. They are the ones responsible for data breaches causing users unimaginable financial losses, as Microsoft and the Banks selling data, hold up there hands as if nothing they can do. Time for them to pay users for usage and sale of data!
Is anyone surprised? The US believes it takes precedence over the entire planet.
Local laws take precedent in every jurisdiction
Canada can not trust Americans. We need to move away from all US products, including Microsoft, Google and Meta. Our data, in fact our persons, are not safe in US hands.
I hope so. It's not safe to keep important data in the cloud where it can be hacked it seems fairly easily and held for ransom.
Shut it down
UBUNTU! (25.04 id out, my gamer son quit windows forever)
This was been discussed in computer industry circles ever since the world wide adoption of public cloud technologies. In reality your data is no safer in a sovereign data centre if it’s owned by USA based company.
Ohhhh this is about to Backfire like a muuuufuucka 😂
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whoa
Done that already multiple times in europe. pretty much what they passed the Cloud act for.
Whoaaaa
Take note, this is seriously effed up.
Microsoft is Big Brother incarnate. How? When G.W. Bush stole the presidency he summarily ended all litigation against Microsoft that multiple states had spent years on. Why? They MADE A DEAL. I saw security certificates deep in the Windows registry for the FBI and NSA before they obfuscated them.
As a Linux user since 1998… it's time to move on from Microsoft, but not only them, all US based companies that provide these kinds of services.
Boycott everything U.S. Switch your operating system to Linux, boycott U.S. products and the world will follow. Canada and the world need to abandon the U.S. while it is under the Trump Dictatorship.
Run, Canada, run!
WTF??? These people have lost their damn minds 🤯🤯🤯🤬🤬🤬 AND, apologies from a multitude of Americans 😞
WTAF
It’s kind of poetic, evil caries seeds of own destruction. For decades, MS was bribing politicians all around the world to keep it going… and now they throw it all away for nothing.
@politicoboytx.bsky.social en savez-vous plus?
Watch how many Countries will STOP using Microsoft after this!
Great, and after spending years telling everyone that since the data centre was on #Canadian soil that would be subject to Canadian laws and here we are now them telling us what we feared before signing up is actually the case, I really dislike this timeline. #cdnpoli time to move on from Microsoft
This is exactly what Microsoft officially responded to the French Senate in public hearings.
See below at 19:30 ⤵️
videos.senat.fr/video.546049...
10 juin 2025
I wouldn't be surprised if the EU is working on their own operating system. They're still growing and learning their potential.
Ya ... sure it does.
You're not talking to magats now, so we see right through your lies Microsoft.
As a citizen of the US, this makes ME angry. 😠 This reeks of “CORPORATISM”.
The hell it does!
Yet another reason to drop all Microsoft products you use.
Give all the contracts to Cohere AI and expand their mandate. Agentic AI can just about hammer out all the software we need, Linux distributions are private - we buy the hardware directly from Taiwan and support a multipolar chip fab in conjunction with EU partners.
We could. 🤷♂️
Which is why Trump is so angry about "persecution of US software companies in Europe. Because of the huge fines that was levied against them for breaches of the EU data privacy laws. Apparently EU has had enough and is moving official data out of harms way. Private citizents should do the same
If this means things start moving to Linux so that more things run on Linux, I’m all for it. Microsoft basically has a monopoly and honestly fuck them.
Microsoft can go to hell
The US has now the same data access law as the People's Republic of China.
Linux is looking sexy as hell these days...
US corporates effectively delegitimizing Canada as a sovereign country.
Next step will be ICE ignoring the Canada border.
US law takes precedent over NOTHING in another country. So stick that up your arse and fuck off while you’re doing it MS
it is however true, if you have your stuff with any American company it doesn't matter what your local laws say, the cloud act says the U.S can take it if they want, and since your provider is in the U.S too bad. Lesson - non U.S data storage is necessary.
Sad to see Clippy fail to help the writer of that comment avoid such embarrassment.
Well, fuck Microsoft then, fuck the USA in general. We can build our own shit.
Es ist klar was nach dieser Aussage passieren muss….ich nutze MS Software seit vielen Jahren nahezu nicht. Aber am Ende heisst das, nichts ist mehr sicher !
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This has been going on all along. If your register your info with an American company, who operates under American law…your info is not going to be weened out bc your Canadian, French or European. China does it too. If you only want your government to spy on you…only use products from your country
Yup, considering this is more about Europe. It includes us, but that headline is meant to piss off Canadians.
Another corporation thinking it can do whatever it wants. More people need to learn about open source OS running Linux. MS is as greedy as they come.
Microsoft, as well as Google, Meta, Oracle, Dropbox, etc., are US based as well as their management. They won’t ever avoid direct orders from US administration under the force of their laws. This is why strategic data must be hosted and “managed” by local companies. This is mandatory.
Wow - what arrogance…. Time for Canada to take another look at Linux I suppose.
hey Microsoft, try that move in Brazil, would you? It's for scientific purposes.
Yeah, I don’t think it does
Not a thing wrong with Linux
Tell that to the EU and see how you get shut down Microsoft 🤣🤣🤣
Does anyone know of a word processing software like Office/Word? Microsoft already ticked me off so I have deleted 365, I need an alternative.
Any recommendations?
That’s some kind of corporate arrogance!
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Try that shit in Europe and see how far that gets you.
FUCK MICROSOFT !!! 🤬
Unless you plan to do business in those countries.
They really want to declare war on the world, eh?
It would be damn nice if all these countries would do even more and #BoycottBigTech At a minimum they could cost companies like Microsoft billions of dollars
This is why @parismarx.com is right. It's not enough for US companies to build data centres in Canada. We need Canadian owned, or as Paris argues, Canadian government owned data centres.
oopsie!
"U.S. law" WTF does that even mean anymore? Goofballs
The US is going to find out just how unexceptional they are, just like the British did after Brexit.
Might interest folks to know that Canada is on the list of approved nations to share data with, under EU law.
The US is not.
But our president is on the Epstein list!!! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles!!
Remember when Trump accused China of stealing Americans private data? Hmm…
Europe soon to follow as well. #DitchingAmericanProducts
This state made the open-source shift, and chances are it won't be the last.
Wow.
I hope Microsoft loses. Bunch of money-grubbing assholes. No more Office 365, when I can get Libre free (and it's just as good, too).
Microsoft can get in the sea.
We still have laws in the U.S.? Could’ve fooled me!
And just like that, Microsoft lost their global market.
About time.
If countries were smart, they'd already be banning US tech.
Canadians need to realize that Palantir, Peter Thiel’s company, has contracts with our government and is working with Cohere, which has police contracts in AB and Ontario. Thiel was the financial backer for JD Vance, and Palantir works with ICE. Thiel is also aligned with Project 2025.
Can't help but notice some parallels to the reasons the US bans or discourages against Chinese tech.
The ignorance of these companies is baffling, clearly capitalism is dead and corporations are just tools of this f&@ked up administration. We see you! We are paying attention, don’t think you’ll have a comeback like VW and Mercedes.
You know somebody is high or knee-walking drunk when they get up on the table and shit in their own dinner plate.
This criminal enterprise run by the right wing has gotten away with so much, they dare us to stop them.
"Billionaires are not compatible with freedom or democracy."
Time to divest all canadian corporations and govt away from Microsoft.
Wow, as if the rest of the world didn't have enough reason to stop using US tech services.
That Dark Enlightenment movement is starting to become problematic.
"(DND) and (CAF) make significant use of Microsoft 365 ...own defence-tailored instance called Defence 365, which serves as a common cloud infrastructure for collaboration across DND/CAF ...stakeholders and other gov't departments." Huge scandal @mark-carney.bsky.social #cdnpoli #GripenOclock
Bill Gates is a pedo pal of Trump and Epstein— no surprise here.
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YEAH! IF FOLLOWS U.S. LAW! YOU KNOW, U.S. LAW THAT WAS PASSED IN, err, Canada?
How does anyone at MS think other countries will respond to "I don't have to follow your laws"? I'm guessing not well.
Good riddance to a terrible company. I know it won't vanish but I can dream...
if we have a Canadian cloud company, we will switch. as they say, "if they build it, they will come"
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The only solution is for other countries to block Microsoft.
I'm in the US and already use LIbreOffice. Still a Mac user, but with Tim Cook bending the knee we'll see how long.
Microsoft backing the dictator again...
This is the kind of concern you'd have if you were using Chinese, Russian, or any other autocratic country's servers.
I'm waiting and hoping for Micro$ofts Authoritarian half-working bullshit software to die. It's been in the shitter since SaaS took over. Its an administration nightmare.
Given just how shitty MS products are these days, there's no excuse for staying with them anyway. But they're cutting their own throats to stay loyal to Trump, too.
LMFAO! Holy shit are board/directors/management fucking stupid. LOL
I hope they lose every contract.
Probably won't but one can dream.
MS bending the knee once again
“Microsoft afirma que la ley estadounidense prevalece sobre la soberanía de datos canadiense”
…o cómo perder contratos gubernamentales en todo el mundo en un solo paso. 🖕🏾🖕🏾
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Sounds like China.
“Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty”
Then you operate where US laws apply. Simple.
We'll see how that works out, LOL. I find it highly embarrassing that a company like Microsoft doesn't understand the concept of data sovereignty.
But then again, it's an American company, so they probably think it means, like, an actual king
Apple possibly dropping out of the UK and now possibly Microsoft if things keep going in this direction. We live in interesting times.
Microsoft Ireland needs to be split from Microsoft US entirely. Problem solved.
my wallet trumps their capitulation either respect our laws or fuck off out of Canada.
Fucking idiots.
Thank you for the information. I will delete all my Microsoft software.
This is a sure sign that Canada should jettison Microsoft completely and do Linux solutions.
Star Spangled Stupidity
Then Microsoft can lose the business
Woop! I fear we’re getting closer to international IP regulation discourse ruh roh
Let’s regroup when France has cancelled all its contracts with the 4 main US hyperscalers.
Hmmmm. China has a bigger potential market than the US. Does Chinese law take precedence over US data sovereignty?
Microsoft has gone too far. They’ve been on the wrong side of things for a very long time now. I would boycott them if it weren’t for sunk costs.
Fucking hell, the fascist rot in the U.S. runs DEEP.
ABM. anything but micro$oft
"Daddy Trump said we can be awful so of course we're going to be awful lmao"
Trumpism is destroying American leadership and the future of Silicon Valley.
Not in Canada. They want to do business here they have to follow the law. Kinda tired of Americans thinking they can disrespect us.
This is how to make The Year of Linux a permanent feature and become the Decade of Linux.
Welp, time to brush off those old Linux skills.
One might think they would focus on the continually rampant office365 spam from their own tenants instead. As far as I knew spam was illegal here in the states 😏
Next company we need to burn to the ground... MICROSOFT
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