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87% of Canada’s biggest companies depend on US tech

Our latest research found that 87% of Canada’s largest companies and 100% of government domains rely on US-owned email infrastructure.
It’s clearer than ever that too much of the technology the world relies on is controlled by too few tech giants, most of them based in the United States and China. Cloud storage, web hosting, email, social media, video calling, communication platforms, and the basic productivity tools that companies and governments use every day have become essential infrastructure. The modern economy cannot function without them. And control over that infrastructure gives both providers — and the countries whose laws they operate under — outsized power over everyone who depends on it. We’ve been tracking this concentration for…
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