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Google recently criticized Liberals’ Bill C-22, which mandates that internet companies include surveillance capabilities in their systems, saying that it would harm ‘global user privacy.’
Tech giants Google and Apple have warned that a “dystopian” Canadian Liberal internet censorship bill, which would demand that people’s data be kept for potential police review, would lead to a “surveillance infrastructure.” “Secret orders are out of step with other democratic countries and would severely restrict companies’ ability to be transparent with users about how their data is protected,”
According to Google, this bill would allow for backdoors that would lead to “systemic vulnerability.” “Without a stronger definition of ‘systemic vulnerability,’ 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,” said Google in its brief.