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Tech giants play an increasingly聽important role聽in the economy and in our everyday lives, but companies like Alphabet, Amazon and Apple are all based in the United States.聽In聽an age of heightened geopolitical tensions, some are calling for greater domestic control over the digital infrastructure聽we鈥檝e聽all come to rely on.

鈥淭hese American companies have access to Canadian data,鈥� says Emmanuelle Vaast, Professor of Information Systems at 涩里番 Desautels. 鈥淎nd this data could be summoned by the U.S. government.鈥� Companies like QLUB are trying to give Quebeckers an alternative. The Montreal-headquartered social network aims to foster authentic connections, and the data it collects is stored in Quebec.