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Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in our networks to allow for surveillance

Kate Robertson is a senior research associate and Ron Deibert is director at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.A federal cybersecurity bill, slated to advance through Parliament soon, contains secretive, encryption-breaking powers that the government has been loath to talk about. And they threaten the online security of everyone in Canada.Bill C-26 empowers government officials to secretly order telecommunications companies to install backdoors inside encrypted elements in Canada’s network...

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