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Apple's problem with Canada is back in the news.

I told you about a 9 to 5 Mac piece earlier this month that had word of proposed legislation

that could give the Canadian government the power to force companies to break encryption or build back doors into their products.

According to the report, Bill C-22 would expand the investigative tools available to Canadian law enforcement for accessing digital information tied to criminal investigations.

Apple and META cited against the bill at the time.

Now a piece from the next web says Apple and Google are speaking out against the bill and

offering suggestions.

According to that piece, Bill C-22 mandates metadata retention for up to one year,

lowers the threshold for police access to subscriber data, and grants ministerial power to compel

electronic service providers to build technical capabilities for surveillance.

Sounds like they want to backdoor into encrypted communications,

which would effectively break encryption.

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