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On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 01:22:24PM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: |
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> NB: I think that there should be public and convenient documentation |
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> citing where the assets containing such information are located, as a |
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> means of public declaration of what jurisdiction applies. |
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The infra wiki pages of server lists do explicitly specify where the |
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various servers are physically located. None of them are in New Mexico. |
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What they don't visibly track is that that Infra can & does move |
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services around over time, depending on the availability of sponsor |
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hardware, requests of sponsors, and appropriate resources for the growth |
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of larger services. [Eg HostVirtual recently contacted us to migrate |
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some services, because they wanted to decommission old hardware] |
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> I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that the jurisdiction under which the |
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> information is contained and/or serves as the state of incorporation |
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> (new mexico, IIRC?) will control any "involuntary" disclosures that the |
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> foundation will not have any discretion about. |
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One of the side bits that was done many years ago, was to put certain |
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things outside of the US however, to take potential advantage of more |
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local privacy laws. For example, Forums lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, |
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and is thus subject to BC privacy laws, which are very strong. If the |
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data is located there, can take precedence over other jurisdictions, at |
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least according to some BC lawyers. |
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If nothing else, it's sufficiently complex privacy law to muddy the |
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waters over data transfer. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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