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Facebook has no datacenters in Canada. Canada has no more legal authority over Facebook's activities than Kim John Un or Ronald McDonald does.
by Causality1 7y ago
Facebook has no datacenters in Canada. Canada has no more legal authority over Facebook's activities than Kim John Un or Ronald McDonald does.
- anoncake 7y agoOf course Canada has the legal authority over Facebook's activities in Canada. Facebook not having any datacenters there just makes enforcement slightly harder.
- tus87 7y agoWhat activities do they do in Canada?
- hulahoof 7y agoProvide advertising services, which I'm sure they happily exchange for $CAD
- Causality1 7y agoArguably that's Canadian companies doing business in America, not the other way around.
- anoncake 7y agoEither way, Canada has jurisdiction.
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- xxs 7y agoThey do sell to Canadian companies, hence they are presented there.
- Veen 7y agoThe reason Facebook doesn't have any Canadian data centers is that the Canadian government won't let them opt out of Canada's privacy laws. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/facebook-canada-data-center-data-privacy-laws/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/facebook-canada-data...