{"id":1010335,"date":"2026-05-27T11:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010335"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:19:02","slug":"apple-google-seek-court-oversight-on-canada-online-safety-bill-amid-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/apple-google-seek-court-oversight-on-canada-online-safety-bill-amid-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Google seek court oversight on Canada online safety bill amid privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants Apple and Google have now urged the Canadian lawmakers to amend bill C-22, on online safety proposals which is presently under debate in the House of Commons, as reported by Reuters. The tech giants are now seeking to include judicial oversight and stronger protections for encryption. The bill which is modelled on similar measures in Britain and Australia aimed to provide law enforcement earlier access to encrypted data to investigate any security threats. While it does not explicitly mandate breaking encryption, but Apple, Google and Meta have warned that it could pave the way for secret orders requiring backdoors in devices and services.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanette Patell, Google\u2019s director for government affairs in Canada, told lawmakers: \u201cSecret orders are out of step with other democratic countries and would severely restrict companies\u2019 ability to be transparent with users about how their data is protected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants Apple and Google have now urged the Canadian lawmakers to amend bill C-22, on online safety proposals which is presently under debate in the House of Commons, as reported by Reuters. The tech giants are now seeking to include judicial oversight and stronger protections for encryption. The bill which is modelled on similar measures in Britain and Australia aimed to provide law enforcement earlier access to encrypted data to investigate any security threats. While it does not explicitly mandate breaking encryption, but Apple, Google and Meta have warned that it could pave the way for secret orders requiring [&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-1010335","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\/1010335","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=1010335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010336,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010335\/revisions\/1010336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}