Canada's Bill C-22: Proposed Surveillance Law Could Force Tech Companies to Build Spy Tools
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Kate Robertson
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Summary
The article discusses Canada's rushed surveillance law reform through Bill C-22 (the Lawful Access Act), which would grant the government broad new powers to compel technology companies to build surveillance tools into their systems—including mobile devices, social media, messaging apps, cloud services, video games, smart home devices, and more. The additional context warns that this legislation could lay the groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to Canadian data, raising significant privacy and civil liberties concerns.
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· 3 pulledThe legislation—called the Lawful Access Act—would give Ottawa broad new powers to compel technology providers to build surveillance tools into their systems.
Its scope could mean requiring companies to install spy tools into mobile devices, social media and messaging apps, cloud-storage services, video game platforms, smart home devices, live video camera networks, or health and fitness trackers
Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data
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