Google is urging the government to make further changes to its lawful-access bill, warning that, as currently worded, it would allow Ottawa to create a “new surveillance infrastructure” and to impose blanket data-retention demands on tech companies that treat users as “potential criminals.”
A briefing note sent by the tech giant to Senators, who are now scrutinizing bill C-22, suggests they make changes to the text to protect encryption. Other suggested amendments would curb the power of a minister to issue secret orders to tech companies demanding they make changes to their systems.
