>As a US citizen living in Canada, I would strongly urge Canadian companies not >doing business in the US to also not keep any personal data on US computers >because of Patriot Act implications.
Even if they're doing business in the US, I would strongly recommend keeping Canadian data in Canada. A couple of years ago, George W got the clearing houses in Belgium (I believe) to cough up information from any/all members of that international consortium. While security for the US is important to the US, it does not give them the right to trump another country's security. Another example is that the US now requires all the security information of any flight to/from/within Canada to be supplied to them, if the flight path happens to cross over any US air-space. As a Canadian, I find this a little hard to swallow. This is the last I'll say (publicly) on this issue, since it has drifted off-topic. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
