cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48273678
With no serious debate, including on proposed amendments, Canada is blazing full speed ahead with Bill C-22, which would threaten encryption and increase surveillance. Also known as the Lawful Access Bill, Bill C-22 is currently moving forward quickly to a vote despite the many, many criticisms civil liberty groups and the tech industry have hurled at it.
As we’ve discussed before, Bill C-22 is dangerous on multiple levels. It pushes for requirements for metadata retention, expands information sharing with foreign governments, and establishes a mechanism that allows Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety to demand that companies create backdoors, effectively breaking encryption. That mechanism was a key facet of Part 2 in Bill C-22, and the government prevented it from being independently debated.
In a deep analysis of the bill, Citizen Lab and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association detail every one of flaws of this proposal, concluding that most elements are unsalvageable.
A wide range of tech companies agree. Signal, Apple, Google, and several VPN providers oppose the bill, and some have said they’d likely be forced to either cut Canadians off from certain features or shut down services in Canada altogether.
The Canadian government wants this dangerous, complicated, overreaching bill passed before June 19. Bill C-22 is riddled with privacy problems that affect millions of people. It should be debated and studied fully, not jammed through on an arbitrary deadline.
OpenMedia is offering a tool for Canadians to contact their elected representatives about the bill. Actions taken on OpenMedia’s website are governed by OpenMedia’s privacy policy, not EFF’s.
Thank you for sharing!
Keep hammering down the fact bills c-22 by Gary Anandasangaree and s-209 by Julie Miville-Dechêne will kill our tech sector.
You’re a little behind on posting this. C-22 has now passed, although this is not the end of the process. It will proceed to debate in the Senate, which is where pressure now needs to be applied.
It is also important to keep hammering your MPs about this. Express your disgust. Tell them how disappointed you are in both this terrible law and this terrible process. Laws can still be changed. Even if this goes into effect as is, the government can still be convinced to back off from actually enforcing it, and it can still be modified or repealed.
Do not accept bad laws. Continue to fight them, forever. Laws can always be changed.
Where to see how our MPs voted on this?
Public debate was shut down and turned “private” so there’s no public record of what anyone said.
Ask them. If they refuse to answer, that’s all the answer you need.
Voters need to withhold their votes from these surveillance ghouls.
It still needs to be given the thumbs up by the senate, with any luck the senate will send it back to the house. As much as I would like to see the US companies leave Canada forcing Canadian alternatives, but at the same time any back door for one person is a back door for everyone.
The senate voted in favour for the age verification bill s-209 after 3 readings they’re not going to oppose c-22.
There’s at least 100 likes on this post. What else do you want
C-22 as in catch-22?
Can’t we just go back to BBSing? Improve the tech behind it to improve security, and problem solved. It’s too complicated for the normies to use and allow further enshitification from lol
I ran a few different BBS’s back in the day. They were great fun.
With no serious debate, including on proposed amendments, Canada is blazing full speed ahead with Bill C-22, which would threaten encryption and increase surveillance. Also known as the Lawful Access Bill, Bill C-22 is currently moving forward quickly to a vote despite the many, many criticisms civil liberty groups and the tech industry have hurled at it.
As we’ve discussed before, Bill C-22 is dangerous on multiple levels. It pushes for requirements for metadata retention, expands information sharing with foreign governments, and establishes a mechanism that allows Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety to demand that companies create backdoors, effectively breaking encryption. That mechanism was a key facet of Part 2 in Bill C-22, and the government prevented it from being independently debated.
In a deep analysis of the bill, Citizen Lab and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association detail every one of flaws of this proposal, concluding that most elements are unsalvageable.
A wide range of tech companies agree. Signal, Apple, Google, and several VPN providers oppose the bill, and some have said they’d likely be forced to either cut Canadians off from certain features or shut down services in Canada altogether.
The Canadian government wants this dangerous, complicated, overreaching bill passed before June 19. Bill C-22 is riddled with privacy problems that affect millions of people. It should be debated and studied fully, not jammed through on an arbitrary deadline.
OpenMedia is offering a tool for Canadians to contact their elected representatives about the bill. Actions taken on OpenMedia’s website are governed by OpenMedia’s privacy policy, not EFF’s.
