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Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in networks for surveillance
Uncompromised encryption is the backbone of cybersecurity. And yet Bill C-26 would allow the federal government to secretly order telcos to undermine that encryption – which would make us more vulnerable to malicious threats
The government’s decision to push the proposed law forward without amending it to remove this encryption-breaking capability has set off alarm bells that these new powers are a feature, not a bug. For this reason, past heads of the CIA, the NSA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as well as Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters(GCHQ) and MI5, all oppose measures that would weaken encryption. The government cited concerns that the Chinese firms might be “ compelled to comply with extrajudicial directions from foreign governments.” And yet, Bill C-26 would quietly provide Canada with the same authority that it publicly condemned.
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