This sounds extremely concerning and is very similar to what Putin's government has implemented in Russia. Thank you for sharing it. -- Dmitriy Korovkin On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 11:38:45 -0400 John Brooks via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > Tucked away in Bill C-2 <https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/45-1/c-2> > is Part 15, which enacts the "Supporting Authorized Access to > Information Act". I uploaded the text here for easy reading. > http://www.fastquake.com/files/supporting-authorized-access-to-information-act.pdf > > This act allows the Minister of Public Safety to secretly(!) order any > electronic service provider (extremely broadly defined — any service > that involves computers or digital data in any way) to implement, among > other things: > > > the development, implementation, assessment, testing and maintenance > > of operational and technical capabilities, including capabilities > > related to extracting and organizing information that is authorized to > > be accessed and to providing access to such information to authorized > > persons > > > the installation, use, operation, management, assessment, testing and > > maintenance of any device, equipment or other thing that may enable an > > authorized person to access information > > > Or for the Governor in Council to create regulations to publicly require > a class of such services to do the same. > > This is a pretty concerning expansion of government surveillance power. > I am not at all confident that existing restraints (some of which are > weakened by other parts of Bill C-2) are enough to prevent this from > being misused. And implementing any kind of soft backdoor increases the > attack surface — increasing the number of ways that private data is > stored and processed internally — adding yet another way for your data > to be compromised. > > If you are concerned about this, I encourage you to tell your Member of > Parliament. > > - John To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org