Universities move to hide work from U.S. eyes
From the Globe & Mail:
Concerned about the U.S. government's prying eyes, a number of Canadian universities are changing the way their professors and students conduct online research.Many university libraries subscribe to RefWorks, a popular U.S.-based Internet tool that allows academics and students to create personal accounts and store research information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
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.