{"id":1007531,"date":"2026-05-11T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007531"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:19:33","slug":"apple-meta-oppose-canadian-bill-that-could-force-them-to-weaken-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/11\/apple-meta-oppose-canadian-bill-that-could-force-them-to-weaken-encryption\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Meta oppose Canadian bill that could force them to weaken encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Meta are reportedly opposing a Canadian bill claiming that it will require tech companies to break the end-to-end encryption of their devices and services if passed. According to a report by Reuters, Canada&#8217;s ruling Liberal Party has proposed a Bill C-22 that is currently being debated in the House of Commons. For those unaware, end-to-end encryption ensures that the communication is secure and no party can access the data without a key. The technology is widely used in services such as Meta Platforms&#8217; WhatsApp and Apple&#8217;s iMessage.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, as per the report, contains provisions that are said to be similar to a UK data access provision order sent to the iPhone maker last year, depending on how they are implemented. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Meta are reportedly opposing a Canadian bill claiming that it will require tech companies to break the end-to-end encryption of their devices and services if passed. According to a report by Reuters, Canada&#8217;s ruling Liberal Party has proposed a Bill C-22 that is currently being debated in the House of Commons. For those unaware, end-to-end encryption ensures that the communication is secure and no party can access the data without a key. The technology is widely used in services such as Meta Platforms&#8217; WhatsApp and Apple&#8217;s iMessage. The bill, as per the report, contains provisions that are said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007532,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007531\/revisions\/1007532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}