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As Quebec prepares to trust the far majority of its computer data to the private sector, Amazon says its Montreal facilities are ready to take on the mandate and this crucial information would be encrypted and more secure than it is now.

Amazon Web Services claims no negotiations are currently ongoing with the province on the subject, but according to the registry of lobbyists, two individuals currently have a mandate from the company to present cloud computing products to the government if there is a call for tenders.

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While many experts worry about what a giant like Amazon could do with the personal information of Quebecers, Stephen Schmidt, a vice-president and chief information security officer at AWS, said the company wouldn’t have direct access to this information.

He said every client that stores its information in AWS’s cloud remains the owner of its data and when a government wants to secure its data, the data is encrypted and only the government has the ability to access the content in its readable form.