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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As Nick has indicated:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cheers, Bill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="color:black">Nick Manning <nick.manning@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, April 14, 2025 at 10:51</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Alexie Tcheuyap <atcheuyap@uwaterloo.ca>, Vivek Goel <Vivek.goel@uwaterloo.ca>, Vice Pres Academic Provost <provost@uwaterloo.ca>, Charmaine Dean <cdean@uwaterloo.ca>, Nenone Donaldson <ndonaldson@uwaterloo.ca>, Jacinda Reitsma <jacinda.reitsma@uwaterloo.ca>,
Bill Baer <bill.baer@uwaterloo.ca>, Robert Park <robert.park@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Gregory Smith <greg.smith@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: MEDIA ISSUE: ACO travel laptop loaner program <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All. Here is the story: <span style="color:black"><a href="https://archive.ph/2025.04.15-015636/https:/www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/avoid-us-or-take-burner-devices-canadian-executives-tell-staff">https://archive.ph/2025.04.15-015636/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/avoid-us-or-take-burner-devices-canadian-executives-tell-staff</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think this is fine, particularly as it notes that the memo does not specifically mention the US. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Alexie Tcheuyap <atcheuyap@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 14, 2025 8:52:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nick Manning <nick.manning@uwaterloo.ca>; Vivek Goel <Vivek.goel@uwaterloo.ca>; Vice Pres Academic Provost <provost@uwaterloo.ca>; Charmaine Dean <cdean@uwaterloo.ca>; Nenone Donaldson <ndonaldson@uwaterloo.ca>; Jacinda Reitsma <jacinda.reitsma@uwaterloo.ca>;
Bill Baer <bill.baer@uwaterloo.ca>; Robert Park <robert.park@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Gregory Smith <greg.smith@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: MEDIA ISSUE: ACO travel laptop loaner program </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks, Nick</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Alexie </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Alexie Tcheuyap, FRSC</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Dean, Faculty of Arts</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Waterloo ON Canada N2L 3G1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:atcheuyap@uwaterloo.ca" title="mailto:atcheuyap@uwaterloo.ca"><span style="color:#0078D7">atcheuyap@uwaterloo.ca</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Latest publication</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/African-Documentary-Cinema/Tcheuyap/p/book/9781032203744" title="https://www.routledge.com/African-Documentary-Cinema/Tcheuyap/p/book/9781032203744"><span style="color:#0078D7">African
Documentary Cinema</span></a>,</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on
the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is co-ordinated
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</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Nick Manning <nick.manning@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, April 14, 2025 at 8:49</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Vivek Goel <Vivek.goel@uwaterloo.ca>, Vice Pres Academic Provost <provost@uwaterloo.ca>, Charmaine Dean <cdean@uwaterloo.ca>, Nenone Donaldson <ndonaldson@uwaterloo.ca>, Jacinda Reitsma <jacinda.reitsma@uwaterloo.ca>, Alexie Tcheuyap <atcheuyap@uwaterloo.ca>,
Bill Baer <bill.baer@uwaterloo.ca>, Robert Park <robert.park@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Gregory Smith <greg.smith@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject: </b>MEDIA ISSUE: ACO travel laptop loaner program </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hey folks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Below is an email that Arts Computing Office sent on April 2 to all faculty members. It has been leaked by “multiple” sources to a reporter at Bloomberg, who called
me tonight to confirm the memo exists and to get comment. Specifically, the reporter is tying the guidance to uncertainty around travel in the US.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have worked with Charmaine and Greg to provide the following quote and guidance.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“The guidance issued from our Arts Faculty Computing Office is consistent with our efforts to improve support for safeguarding Canadian
research and applies to all travel, globally."</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I should add for background – our safeguarding research team has been out talking to our faculties since September to share guidance
and direction on how we can evolve to better safeguard Canadian research – so although the Arts team sent their message on April 2, our guidance on how to safeguard while travelling pre-dates that message.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am flagging this as it will certainly generate a story as early as tonight and likely follow on enquiries. It will be positioned in news as a direct response
to the Trump government and a significant development in Canadian university protectionism and fear.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bill, Bob and Alexei – please redirect all media to me when they contact you or the team.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Bill Baer <bill.baer@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:05<br>
<b>To: </b>Nick Manning <nick.manning@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Robert Park <robert.park@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Fw: ACO travel laptop loaner program </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">As we discussed on our Teams call, here is the specific email sent to Arts Faculty and Arts Staff email lists.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The way I read the email, it relates to international travel. The concern may be the second paragraph.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Robert and I started discussing this a year ago shortly after the mandatory cyber-security training.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Cheers, Bill</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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on behalf of Robert Park <robert.park@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 2, 2025 10:37<br>
<b>To:</b> Artsfac <artsfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; Artsstaff <artsstaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject:</b> ACO travel laptop loaner program </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">For Arts faculty members, staff, and graduate students who need to travel internationally on UW business (e.g., to conferences, etc.) but who do not wish to take their own laptop with them due
to concerns about having all their files potentially subject to inspections at the border, the Arts Computing Office now has a limited number of "clean" PC and Macintosh laptops available for short-term loans.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">The university has for some time offered useful advice concerning "Digital Travel Safety" (<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/cyber-awareness/digital-travel-safety">https://uwaterloo.ca/cyber-awareness/digital-travel-safety</a>
but recent events have elevated these concerns, which is the reason we are starting the service in Arts right away for anyone who believes they would benefit from it, pending the creation of a university-wide service.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">We are still finalizing exactly how these laptops will be configured but they will allow users to access their online remote resources securely (e.g., email; their OneDrive files; and Microsoft
365 applications) without any information remaining on the laptop once the connection is closed (keeping in mind the good advice in the "Digital Travel Safety" guide about ensuring secure access to wifi). We also intend to configure them to allow users to
do some basic tasks offline (e.g., edit a Word or PowerPoint file). Before departing the user would install onto their laptop only those files that they anticipate needing during their trip and which they are comfortable having inspected at the border. When
they return the laptop to ACO it will be completely wiped and re-imaged so that the next borrower can start with a pristine device.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">ACO is not yet in a position to offer loaner cellphones along with the loaner laptops, but we (and IST) are exploring whether that will become possible.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">To request the loan of a laptop, please contact ACO with your travel destination and dates as far in advance as possible. Requests from graduate students should cc their supervisor. The laptop
will need to be returned to ACO as soon as possible after your trip, so that it can be wiped and re-imaged for another traveller.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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