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Signal Warns It Would Pull Out of Canada if Made to Comply with Lawful Access Bill

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Feed Name: The Citizen Lab

Date Published: 2026-05-14

Date Updated: 2026-05-14

Author: Anna Mackay

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Canada's proposed Bill C-22 has drawn warnings from companies like Signal and Meta and privacy advocates who say it could undermine end-to-end encryption and lead to forced metadata collection for messaging apps. Kate Robertson, a senior research associate, cautioned that government officials have not committed to protecting encryption and emphasized that encrypted communications are vital for human rights defenders, journalists, and dissidents.

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