# Open letter from European civil society organisations on encryption and privacy threats in Canada’s Bill C-22

- Type: News
- Source: Access Now
- Date: 2026-09-14
- Original: https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/encryption-and-privacy-threats-in-canadas-bill-c-22/
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/353951
- Topics: Security, Monitoring, Storage Limitation, Encryption, Post-Market Monitoring Data Collection and Analysis

## 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.

## Full text

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.

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