Bill C-22 Wants to Help Law Enforcement by Tracking Citizens More Closely

Added: 2026-06-02

Bill C-22 is a Canadian legislative proposal that creates new legal tools for law enforcement to access subscriber information, transmission data, tracking data, and production orders, addressing the challenge of investigating online crime where evidence is held by telecoms, platforms, encrypted apps, cloud providers, and internet companies; however, critics argue this legislation establishes a Canadian surveillance framework that raises significant privacy concerns.