What exactly is Canadian data? Is it data generated by Canadian citizens? What if people change citizenships? Is it data generated by all people on Canadian soil? What if you post something while transiting the Arctic Circle in an airplane? How does it include relationships between Canadians and non-Canadians? 90% of Canadians live along the U.S.-Canada border. Does data partially derived from Canadians count (e.g. ML models)? I read the article and it was not clear how the lines were drawn and how they will evolve with time.
Pretty sure this messiness is both why Facebook does not want the government to be enforcing privacy rules, and why the government wishes to do so in the first place.
All laws are messy, but what is even messier are the consequences of laissez-faire capitalism.
One minute you're saying that the government has no business in the private communications of its citizens, the next minute somebody's operating a child pornography ring on the internet.
Pretty sure this messiness is both why Facebook does not want the government to be enforcing privacy rules, and why the government wishes to do so in the first place.