Building tools for Canadian data visibility · Vancouver, BC

DATA
SOVEREIGN
CANADA.

Every time a Canadian uses an app, searches online, or moves through the world with a phone in their pocket, they generate data that is collected, analyzed, and monetized — mostly by a small number of large corporations operating outside Canada, under foreign law, with no obligation to share what they know, what they take, or what it's worth.

Most Canadians can't see this happening. Canadian policymakers trying to address it have no independent, ground-up evidence on which to base law. Cloud Commons Canada is building the tools to change that.

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Cloud Commons Canada

The Problem

CANADIANS CAN'T SEE
THE SYSTEM
THEY'RE INSIDE.

Apps and digital services collect more than most people realize. Beyond what you search or type, they record device signals, location patterns, and behavioural data that flows to developers, advertisers, and cloud infrastructure — mostly operated by a handful of American companies, under American law, with no obligation to share what they know or what it's worth.

Most Canadians can't see this happening. The terms of service that supposedly govern it are written to minimize comprehension, not enable it.

Canadian institutions — the Competition Bureau, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada — are trying to regulate a system they can only partially observe. The most detailed data on how Canadian personal data moves comes from the corporations doing the collecting. There is no independent, participatory, ground-up measurement of Canada's personal data economy. Policymakers are making decisions in the dark, or by candlelight provided by the people with the most to lose from transparency.

The Solution

LOCAL
ENVIRONMENT
OBSERVABILITY
NODE.

LEON is a public-interest tool that gives Canadians a plain-language picture of their digital exposure.

Select the apps you use. LEON cross-references each one against a structured database: who owns it, where its servers are, under what jurisdiction your data is held, and what your actual portability rights are. You receive a clear exposure report — not a score, not a warning, but a concrete picture of your digital environment and what it means.

Then LEON asks one more question: would you like to contribute your anonymized structural profile to a national map?

If yes, no personal data is retained. What gets contributed is the shape of the ecosystem as seen from one more Canadian device. Aggregated across thousands of participants, that becomes something new: a ground-up, public-interest picture of Canada's app-layer infrastructure — who owns it, where it runs, and how exposed Canadians are to foreign jurisdictional risk.

That picture is published openly. No paywall. Available to researchers, journalists, and policymakers who currently have nothing like it.

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Why It Matters

WHAT IT
ADDS UP
TO.

Better individual visibility, aggregated with consent, creates the evidence base Canada needs for better privacy law, stronger platform regulation, and a more sovereign digital infrastructure.

LEON does not read your messages, track your location, or monitor your behaviour. It looks at structure — what apps are present, who owns them, where they operate.

Participation is voluntary at every stage. Contribution is opt-in. Profiles are anonymized before aggregation. Cloud Commons Canada is a Canadian non-profit with no advertising, no data sales, and a dissolution clause that permanently protects assets from private transfer.

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WE'D LOVE TO
HEAR FROM YOU.

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