• ShaggyBlarney@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Corey Doctorow has been making this point on digital sovereignty. How many federal agencies would be crippled if Trump demands microslop shut down teams or one drive or sharepoint. Can you trust US tech to not capitulate?

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      2 months ago

      The fact that they have to hand over data if asked, should have got governments off of American platforms years ago.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Teams meeting are being scraped and the data is being sold for marketing, so within government, likely espionage.

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    2 months ago

    Why I have been writing agencies and ministers about getting off of Microslop. Also why I am trying to move to open source stuff and Canadian hosted things that do not rely on the US.

  • puppinstuff@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I spent the last year slowly finding Canadian and European alternatives for all my stuff.

    Kid starts first grade and am immediately handed my Google Classroom login. 💀