Universities move to hide work from U.S. eyes:

But the Patriot Act — which grew out of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and which potentially allows U.S. authorities to sweep through databases such as RefWorks — has prompted Canadian postsecondary institutions to abandon the American server for one housed at the University of Toronto.

There are similar things happening at Carleton, but from what I can tell they have more to do with FIPPA compliance then anything else.

This reminds me that I need to do more research into FIPPA requirements. For example, does using Google Search or Google Analytics violate FIPPA? What about using Typepad? Flickr? I don't think so, but I should make a note to look into it nonetheless.