Kill Bill C-22
Says Civil Society to Parliament
A group of 25 rights and privacy organizations and experts delivered an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney and every Member of Parliament calling for the full withdrawal of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. Among the signatories are Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert , senior researcher Noura Aljizawi, senior fellow Lex Gill, and senior research associate Kate Robertson.
The letter warns that the bill introduces potential for privacy violations, such as allowing the government to force digital services to record and retain up to a full year of detailed metadata on every person in Canada and abroad.
Bill C-22 would also compel an “enormous and poorly defined” set of providers to build surveillance backdoors into their products. Its provisions could “weaken the rules governing police access to personal information, all while facilitating a vast expansion of government surveillance,” according to a signatory.
