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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 agen

by natas 7mo ago

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 framework requiring electronic service providers to support access requests.

ranger_danger 7mo ago
Sounds like a Canadian version of CALEA to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...
mhurron 7mo ago
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.
- downrightmike 7mo ago
  That access has produced nothing for the USA, the director of the program has stated such to congress. Complete waste of time and money
- like_any_other 7mo ago
  > You missed 'warrentless' in your summary. It's sort of important. Less than you would hope: https://web.archive.org/web/20140718122350/https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liberty-or-paper-shield/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140718122350/https://www.popeh... Notably, a single secret warrant authorized the surveillance of everyone on the Verizon network: That warrant orders Verizon Business Network Services to provide a daily feed to the NSA containing "telephony metadata" – comprehensive call detail records, including location data – about all calls in its system, including those that occur "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court#2013_NSA_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig... I know those are about the US and this law is Canada, but the same things can happen.

by natas 7mo ago

ranger_danger 7mo ago

Sounds like a Canadian version of CALEA to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...

mhurron 7mo ago

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.

downrightmike 7mo ago
That access has produced nothing for the USA, the director of the program has stated such to congress. Complete waste of time and money
like_any_other 7mo ago
> You missed 'warrentless' in your summary. It's sort of important. Less than you would hope: https://web.archive.org/web/20140718122350/https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liberty-or-paper-shield/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140718122350/https://www.popeh... Notably, a single secret warrant authorized the surveillance of everyone on the Verizon network: That warrant orders Verizon Business Network Services to provide a daily feed to the NSA containing "telephony metadata" – comprehensive call detail records, including location data – about all calls in its system, including those that occur "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court#2013_NSA_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig... I know those are about the US and this law is Canada, but the same things can happen.