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Mapping privacy concerns – The circuitous route our data take is a serious concern.

Let me add as a side note to a previous article I’ve touched on to physical Database location and it’s impact on international law.

When data is sent or a better way to express it – travels through the net – through routers, switches, firewalls, software a lot of things happen. The way the net was originally designed was with simplicity in mind. Get something from point A to B as easily and efficiently as possible. Now with the advent of complexity and a lot more hardware and software layers between point A to point B, all data regardless of it’s nature travels in ways that we’re never intended. Some of your data or all of it will travel in opposite directions all over the world if need be to get to it’s final destination. However even that is misleading if the intention is to have all of your data sent to a central processing point to have it analyzed prior to sending it on it’s way to it’s final destination. With that said, once data leaves it’s point of origin – namely point A(Canada in this case) and ends up traveling through 50 other countries, then in my opinion your data is now under 50 countries jurisdiction and laws. It all amounts to precedence. You can thank International Aviation Laws as being our modern day Knight in shining Armour.

In the same way that airspace is the ultimate rule of the day with flights following global routes, then so too are flights of data fancy going through the net. No different, yet different. Instead of physical people, we are talking about data as being the gold standard of people’s minds and spirits when going around the world. Now instead of needing to be physically there in body, you can be there in mind and/or spirit. So the same laws should apply. Hence each and every country in which the data travels is already tracked and logged in journals(Databases) along with point of origin and destination. Therefore in international law, each and every country has the right to set and apply it’s laws according to it’s national security criteria and interests.

Simple when you think about it, yet obviously missed or dismissed. So bear in mind that one country’s laws are not the final deciding factor as to what happens to your personal private data or even in this case the Canadian Gouvernment’s “private” data when it travels through Timbuktu’s or other not so nice and compliant servers and laws on the other side of the planet.

Hopefully we’ll have settled this question once and for all before we send men & women to Mars and meet aliens from outer space !

Something else to think about

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