Reflections from Crumbly Acres: US CLOUD Act (2018) and personal data

Many Canadians use US-based apps, as we don't have other options: Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Facebook (Meta). 🇨🇦 This is what a Canadian Law firm wrote about it. This law forces businesses such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Facebook (Meta) to provide information to the US. This will include educational institutions, businesses, and children's data, etc. They say US law supercedes Canadian privacy laws.

There's been an 🇺🇸 American law, Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act from 2018. Canada is negotiating with the US over this law, and began negotiations in 2022. (The law allows for bilateral agreements.) Canada has had a citizen refused entry, awhile ago, as she'd had a mental health episode, which the government disclosed to the US. This is specific information you'd think would fall under PHIPPA, our privacy act.

Canadian woman refused U.S. entry because of depression
Canadians with mental illnesses denied U.S. entry
Only five doctors in Canada can assess mental status for US It costs $500, done in Toronto. I take antidepressants, this is scary.

Some countries, states, and provinces have decided to limit the use of certain apps, which means you must prove you are an adult. How do they do this? Documentation to be uploaded? Thing is, the CLOUD Act gives the US access to your documents and information, across borders.

🇺🇸 US Travel: With the way the US is headed, border agents scanning Canadian cell phones for anti-turd sentiments, this worries me. There are 150 Canadians disappeared by ICE. Now, they are taking our data.

CTV News

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) latest data shows that between April and June, U.S. border officers searched 14,899 electronic devices, including 1,075 “advanced searches.” – read more here.

"Microsoft said that in the second half of 2022, of the nearly 5,000 demands for "consumer data" it received from U.S. law enforcement, 53 warrants sought content stored outside of the U.S. "