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Open letter from European civil society organisations on encryption and privacy threats in Canada’s Bill C-22
- Occurred
- Sep 14, 2026
- Published
- Sep 14, 2026
- Source
- Access Now
Summary
We, the undersigned organisations and experts, write to urge you to act before Canada’s Senate completes its consideration of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, and to press Canada to remove the bill’s surveillance capability mandates and its blanket data retention regime. The post Open letter from European civil society organisations on encryption and privacy threats in Canada’s Bill C-22 appeared first on Access Now.
Tags
- Bill-C22
- Canada
- Encryption
- EU
- privacy
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Civil society letter opposes surveillance and data retention mandates in proposed legislation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8