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Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain

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Re: Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain

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Is this one also the work of Meta?

Why do you say that, did Meta sponsor similar legislation in another country? It doesn't seem like they have strong incentives to push for this. How does it make them more money?

If by similiar you mean more spying then yes.

https://wicks.asmdc.org/press-releases/20250909-google-meta-...

Re: Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain

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post #3

Quick summary for the impatient (the original looks like an extract from Orwell's 1984): Bill C-22 (Canada, 2026) updates laws to give police and security agencies faster and clearer access to digital data during investigations. It expands authorities to obtain subscriber information, transmission data, and tracking data from telecom and online service providers and from foreign companies. The bill also creates a fra…

Sounds like a Canadian version of CALEA to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...

Re: Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain

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post #3

Quick summary for the impatient (the original looks like an extract from Orwell's 1984): Bill C-22 (Canada, 2026) updates laws to give police and security agencies faster and clearer access to digital data during investigations. It expands authorities to obtain subscriber information, transmission data, and tracking data from telecom and online service providers and from foreign companies. The bill also creates a fra…

You missed 'warrentless' in your summary. It's sort of important.

The push by the government here is because Canada is the only one of the Five-Eyes countries that doesn't have these powers, and for the government that's a bad thing.

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https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/a-tale-of-two-bills-lawf...

Thanks! I've moved that link to the top and put https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-r... in the top text.

I am OK with this.
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