Canada

This is pretty wild. The judge made judgement not friendly to America so she got sanctioned which even outside of America means she can't use a lot of services.

For example even in Canada if you couldn't use proper IOS and Google Android it would make it very difficult to use mobile bank apps given how current app security works.

This summer Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived at her home in The Hague and, as was her habit, called out “Alexa”.

There was silence. The voice-activated assistant did not respond. “Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me,” Prost recalled in an interview with The Irish Times.

For those wondering about the numbered of sanctions people.

According to OFAC, there are approximately

12,000 names on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN) list, [17] which is the most restrictive category of targeted U.S. sanctions, targeting U.S.-designated terrorists, officials and beneficiaries of certain authoritarian regimes, and international criminals (e.g. drug traffickers) by blocking their U.S. assets and restricting U.S. persons from engaging in any transactions with them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_sanctions

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