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1. Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 07:39:16 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

   Whoa, only just saw this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018883758/should-official-govt-data-be-hosted-by-overseas-cloud-providers This all needs to be on-shore with *NZ-owned* (not US owned!!) hosting providers. https://catalystcloud.nz is totally right about this.

   • Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 07:43:53 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @lightweight You won't like this: Our facial recognition firm Auror (yeah, I don't approve of their business...) uses MS Azure.

   • Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 08:16:10 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

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     I can't believe that no one is talking about the threat to our sovereignty presented by NZ's adoption of the #CPTPPA and the implications of secret suits brought by, for example, foreign owned tech corporations who might secretly sue (or threaten to do so) the Crown if NZ gov't has any policy that prefers domestic suppliers of cloud services. It's ridiculous that we'd accept such constraints on national policy (i.e. loss of sovereignty).

   • Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 10:18:08 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

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     The Digital Strategy Report https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/7-Publications/2-Reports/20230329-Digital-Strategy-Report.pdf mentions the word 'privacy' once in conjunction with 'security' with no real depth. It mentions shore (as in on-shore) and sovereignty 0 times. It mentions 'jurisdiction' 5 times, all related to how 'tech is used in other jurisdictions' and nothing about the jurisdiction of the data hosting. It looks like a pretty hopeless report with respect to all the really important issues.