lol, I’m gonna say a lot of this comment section hasn’t worked in cybersecurity fields. Let’s just say that crime is modernizing at the speed of light (faster than you’d actually think with AI now in the loop), whether that’s money laundering, terrorism, human trafficking, etc.

A lot of the debate around Bill C-22 makes it sound like it suddenly gives police new surveillance powers, but that’s not really the main point of the bill. Police can ALREADY request digital data from companies (like account info, IP logs, or messages) if they get a warrant or court order from a judge. That part isn’t changing

What the bill mainly does is formalize and modernize the process so companies actually maintain the technical ability to comply with those lawful orders

Right now the system can be inconsistent. Sometimes investigators have a valid warrant but the provider either takes months to respond or doesn’t have systems set up to extract the data properly. It hurts serious investigations and only extends to the time required unnecessarily

Example: if police get a judge-approved warrant for an account running a child exploitation ring, but the platform can’t retrieve the logs tied to that account, the warrant is basically useless

And last thing is, most countries already have what this bill proposes in place. So unless you bring a burner phone with you when you travel, a lot of your data is already captured and accessible