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> Facebook promised to open a data centre in Canada to create jobs, in exchange for the federal government offering assurances that it would not impose its juri
by angott 8y ago
> Facebook promised to open a data centre in Canada to create jobs, in exchange for the federal government offering assurances that it would not impose its jurisdiction over the company's non-Canadian data.
This should not be legal in the first place.
- gruez 8y agowhich part? >Facebook promised to open a data centre in Canada to create jobs, in exchange for the federal government offering assurances or >impose its jurisdiction over the company's non-Canadian data ?
- komaromy 8y agoThe latter part is italicized in the GP. I don't really understand the legality argument though. Canada is a sovereign nation.
- gpm 8y agoCanadian here. I could maybe (by which I mean probably not because of edge cases but the concept basically makes sense) get behind making it illegal under under Canadian Law to say "we'll do X if you promise not to pass laws about Y". That sounds a lot like bribery to me. Note that "assurances" is italicized in OP - the former sentence better captures the meaning of the italicized area despite only containing one word of it.
- angott 8y agoThat is exactly what I meant, sorry if I was unclear.