{"id":17369,"date":"2026-05-26T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=17369"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:37:53","slug":"even-google-warns-canada-bill-c-22-creates-surveillance-backdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/even-google-warns-canada-bill-c-22-creates-surveillance-backdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Google Warns Canada Bill C-22 Creates Surveillance Backdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joining the UK in trying to accelerate the surveillance state is another crown property, Canada. Canada is also sneakily trying to do away with property rights<\/a>, so they’re really heading towards a dystopia. Canadians who have the means should really look at getting out while they can. The Albertan succession effort could potentially ramp up some of these efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/even-google-warns-canada-bill-c-22-creates-surveillance-backdoors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The bill is in real trouble when even Google, a company that built its empire on knowing everything about you, thinks a government’s surveillance plan goes too far.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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By Ken Macon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google has told Canadian lawmakers that Bill C-22<\/a> would build a \u201csurveillance infrastructure\u201d that weakens cybersecurity for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company\u2019s submission to the House of Commons public safety committee landed alongside a blunt refusal from Swiss-based Proton VPN and a trade warning from the Information Technology Industry Council, a US lobby group representing Amazon, Google, and Nvidia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill C-22 would force telecoms, messaging apps, and potentially any digital service in Canada to rebuild their systems for police and CSIS surveillance, while storing user metadata for up to a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That metadata covers who contacted whom, when, and from where, for millions of people not suspected of anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Google, which is ironically no stranger to surveillance accusations, warned that the bill gives the Public Safety Minister \u201csweeping powers to issue secret orders\u201d to intercept data, and that its definition of \u201celectronic service provider\u201d could catch nearly any company operating in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company called the bill\u2019s safeguard against systemic vulnerabilities dangerously narrow. \u201cWithout a stronger definition of \u2018systemic vulnerability,\u2019 the law could be used to decrease overall user security, by creating backdoors that would break end-to-end encryption and create significant cybersecurity risks, facilitating foreign interference and weakening global user privacy,\u201d Google wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company added: \u201cGoogle has never built a backdoor or other mechanism to circumvent end-to-end encryption in our products. If we say a product is end-to-end encrypted, it is end-to-end encrypted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google joins Apple, Meta, and Signal, the last of which has threatened to leave Canada entirely rather than comply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proton VPN\u2019s general manager David Peterson was less diplomatic. \u201cComplying with foreign surveillance orders without Swiss legal process is a criminal offence. Not happening,\u201d he posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ll defend our Canadian users and never compromise them. We will fight C-22\u2019s application by every means available.\u201d Proton also noted that the EU\u2019s highest court has struck down this kind of mass retention legislation twice already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ITI submission added trade pressure, arguing C-22 would have \u201cextraterritorial reach and increase conflict of law issues for global technology companies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US congressional committee chairs Jim Jordan and Brian Mast already warned Anandasangaree that American companies face an impossible choice between \u201ccompromising the security of their entire user base, including US citizens, or risking exclusion from the Canadian market.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government\u2019s own defense of the bill mostly proved the opposition\u2019s point. RCMP officials said retained metadata could identify people \u201con the scene or at least individuals who were in proximity\u201d to a shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may remember, Public Safety Minister Anandasangaree has accused<\/a> tech companies of \u201cmisinterpreting\u201d the bill. The companies are interpreting it just fine. They\u2019re reading what it says and refusing to build what it demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joining the UK in trying to accelerate the surveillance state is another crown property, Canada. Canada is also sneakily trying to do away with property rights, so they’re really heading towards a dystopia. Canadians who have the means should really look at getting out while they can. The Albertan succession effort could potentially ramp up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17370,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions\/17370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}