When privacy advocates thought they had won the Crypto Wars in the 1990s, they probably wouldn’t have guessed they’d still be discussing whether decrypting private data is a bad or good idea 30 years later. But since at least 2020, a stream of governments have been trying to create a backdoor to encryption under the new name of "lawful access".
Canada's C-22 bill is the latest such proposal. It seeks to force all "electronic service providers" to install "technical capabilities" to allow law enforcement access to all communications and sensitive data of Canadian citizens.
