{"id":249367,"date":"2026-05-19T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/tech-exodus-why-bill-c-22s-privacy-and-security-risks-will-drive-digital-services-out-of-the-country\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:50:23","slug":"tech-exodus-why-bill-c-22s-privacy-and-security-risks-will-drive-digital-services-out-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/tech-exodus-why-bill-c-22s-privacy-and-security-risks-will-drive-digital-services-out-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Exodus: Why Bill C-22&#8217;s Privacy and Security Risks Will Drive Digital Services Out of the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2026\/05\/tech-exodus-why-bill-c-22s-privacy-and-security-risks-will-drive-digital-services-out-of-the-country\/\">Tech Exodus: Why Bill C-22&#8217;s Privacy and Security Risks Will Drive Digital Services Out of the Country<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2026\/05\/tech-exodus-why-bill-c-22s-privacy-and-security-risks-will-drive-digital-services-out-of-the-country\/\">https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2026\/05\/tech-exodus-why-bill-c-22s-privacy-and-security-risks-will-drive-digital-services-out-of-the-country\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 07:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.michaelgeist.ca\">www.michaelgeist.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past week, a growing number of tech companies have warned that they may be forced to leave Canada if Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, remains unchanged. The government\u2019s response to warnings from Signal, Windscribe, NordVPN, Apple, and Meta is that the companies are misreading the bill. But the prospect of a tech exodus from Canada rests on clear-cut privacy and security risks that do not apply in the U.S. or Europe. When Yegor Sak, the Toronto-headquartered CEO of Windscribe, told the Globe and Mail last week that he is actively looking at moving the company out of Canada or when Signal\u2019s Vice President of Strategy and Global Affairs Udbhav Tiwari told the same paper that Signal \u201cwould rather pull out of the country than be compelled to compromise on the privacy promises we have made to our users,\u201d those statements are a direct response to the government\u2019s legislative choices in the Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act (SAAIA), the second half of Bill C-22, that will have serious economic implications for the future of the tech sector in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The Act\u2019s definition of \u201celectronic service provider\u201d captures any service involving the creation, recording, storage, processing, transmission, or reception of information, provided either to persons in Canada or by an entity carrying on business activities in Canada. The breadth intentionally covers far more than just telecom companies and Internet providers, extending to platforms, messaging applications, VPN services, and device manufacturers. Every ESP is subject to a general assistance obligation under section 7 and to a secrecy obligation that bars disclosure of the existence of requests. Moreover, the broader set of obligations for core providers, including mandated metadata retention and technical capabilities requirements subject to an inadequately defined exception for \u201csystemic vulnerabilities,\u201d can also be applied to ESPs under the direction of the Minister&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/2026\/05\/tech-exodus-why-bill-c-22s-privacy-and-security-risks-will-drive-digital-services-out-of-the-country\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Exodus: Why Bill C-22&#8217;s Privacy and Security Risks Will Drive Digital Services Out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3840px-Exit_to_USA_Windsor_Ontario_21746717526-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249369,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249367\/revisions\/249369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}