September 14, 2007
Fearing Prying U.S. Eyes, Canada's Colleges Crack Down on Computing
New laws to protect personal data are confusing institutions and costing them extra money
The USA Patriot Act is having far-reaching effects on the kinds of data that wind up on some academics' computers in Canada. Canadian colleges, responding to provincial laws passed in reaction to the Patriot Act, are preventing professors from entering the United States with students' private data on their laptops and limiting the locations of servers where academic data are stored.
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