the Ontario Court of Justice, presided over by Judge Heather Perkins-McVey, ruled that the French parent company must hand over the data to the Canadian authorities. Her reasoning is based on a broad interpretation of “virtual presence”: since OVH operates globally and offers services in Canada, the company is subject to Canadian jurisdiction, regardless of where the physical servers are located.
OVH has two DCs in Canada. I wonder if that constitutes “offers services” or if it’s just that OVH exists on the Internet.
We should promote open-source alternatives, not american-style digital services, on european soil.
Although the idea is nice, both are needed.
It’s important to have open-source alternatives, but you’re not going to serve websites at the Amazon or Youtube scale by self-hosting OSS. Hyperscaler and their datacentres are also needed.
France keeps making some really solid arguments against using any service originating from the country.
Can you elaborate on why how a court ruling from a province in Canada is really France’s fault?
I am not taking a stance in your exchange but I can’t stop thinking about https://piefed.zip/c/grapheneos/p/724753/grapheneos-foundation-to-no-longer-have-presence-in-france when reading this news
You see I‘m feeling lazy today and only read the title which did not include Canada at the time. They probably edited it because of my comment. You are welcome.
