[kimos]

I worked at Shopify at the time this became legal and several provinces were launching on our platform. It was a monumental lift to get every single thing a transaction from these shops touches to only run on or through infrastructure on Canadian soil for this exact reason.

[And1]

If you've written about this on a blog or elsewhere, I would be very interested in hearing more about this.

Can you say more here? Is this a payment gateway thing? I though if you used a visa/mastercard/etc that data is up for grabs by a foreign government, but if it's interac or some other payment method, does that ensure the data resides only in Canada?

[kimos]

Unfortunately it wasn't my project so I can't speak to it with detail or authority. I was just observing.

It was things like: Where do log statements go? Via what path? Are we sure none of those routers are in the US? Can we spin up new instances of EVERYTHING in a `-ca` region? Can we force traffic for this shop to only use those instances? What about vendors? Can we disable US-only vendors of whatever? What about backups? What things are centralized (which were good to identify)? Can we region those too? Can we disable/bypass them?

And do that for every bit and packet for a very complex system. I think that it launched with a considerable number of features just disabled. Privacy trumped everything.