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[–] Canajan@piefed.ca 64 points 4 days ago (4 children)

As a matter of national security we need to move our digital services to Canadian platforms, or platforms other than Microsoft.

[–] Lectral@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

Canadian is good. Open-source would be better.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago

Microsoft made sure the definition of a "Canadian company" is based on the number of employees in Canada so they qualify for those contracts. No joke. I want to RFP something besides PowerBI and all the little open source shops don't qualify. Microsoft does.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yes, yes, and yes. Microslop has shown they will “accidentally” leak stuff if you threaten to move so governments should move.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 days ago

As they realized in Europe, Microsoft will turn data over to the US govt if requested, so using it on sensitive systems should be seen as a bigger security threat than some video app.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Yup, doesn't matter where the data centres are - a contract is only as trustworthy as the person or company you signed it with. Throwing all your government and medical and everything else docs on somebody else's computer with a "trust me bro" privacy statement seems like a recipe for disaster.