I have been made aware of an ourcommons petition on this topic:
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6627
Thanks
John
On 2025-06-06 11:38, John Brooks via linux 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