Non-Us+Hosting+Services

The purposes of this list is to identify various hosts for online services who do NOT fall under the jurisdiction of the US Patriot Act. That act runs afoul of most Canadian provincial and federal privacy laws, and thus is regularly invoked by campus administrators as one reason why academics may NOT use a third-party off-campus service in their course. It is hoped that developing such a list may give faculty more choices and an easier time countering this claim.

Sites that Are Outside the Purview of the Patriot Act
(if different than Country of Origin)** ||
 * **Service Type** || **Service Name / URL** || **Country of Origin** || **Country where servers are hosted
 * Wikis ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Blogs/Community Site ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || [| Edublogs] || Australia ||  ||
 * || [|Eduspaces] (was ELGG) || United Kingdom ||  ||
 * || [|Eduspaces] (was ELGG) || United Kingdom ||  ||

Other Relevant Links

 * [| BC Privacy Commissioners Ruling on the US Patriot Act] ([|Shorter Summary])