{"id":256273,"date":"2026-05-26T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/apple-google-say-lawful-access-bill-could-undermine-user-safety-privacy-national\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:00:08","slug":"apple-google-say-lawful-access-bill-could-undermine-user-safety-privacy-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/apple-google-say-lawful-access-bill-could-undermine-user-safety-privacy-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Google say lawful access bill could undermine user safety, privacy &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11865152\/lawful-access-privacy-apple-google\/\">Apple, Google say lawful access bill could undermine user safety, privacy &#8211; National<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11865152\/lawful-access-privacy-apple-google\/\">https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11865152\/lawful-access-privacy-apple-google\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 17:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"globalnews.ca\">globalnews.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Executives from Apple and Google urged the federal government to tighten rules in its proposed lawful access legislation to avoid creating vulnerabilities in their products, arguing so-called \u201cbackdoors\u201d into encrypted data systems could be exploited by cyber criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Bill C-22 would lead to the creation of regulations requiring \u201ccore\u201d telecommunications providers to create \u201ccapabilities\u201d for law enforcement to access information, and for the retention of user metadata for up to one year. Ministerial orders could then be given to other providers without judicial oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Although the government has said the bill is \u201cencryption neutral\u201d and that it won\u2019t push providers to create a \u201csystemic vulnerability,\u201d the companies added to the growing chorus of concerns that the current language in the legislation \u2014 including the definition of a \u201csystemic vulnerability\u201d \u2014 is broad enough that encryption could still be at risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaking as an engineer, we do not know of a way to deploy encryption technology that provides access only for the good guys without creating new ways for the bad guys to break in,\u201d Erik Neuenchwander, Apple\u2019s senior director of user privacy and child safety, told the House of Commons public safety committee.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, when you build a backdoor into an encrypted device, anyone can walk through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to the 2024 Salt Typhoon cyberattack on U.S. government systems that exploited access points created under that country\u2019s own lawful access bill.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get daily National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat law was narrower than Bill C-22,\u201d he said. \u201cSo imagine what could happen if more companies were required to create these vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeanette Patell, the director of government affairs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11865152\/lawful-access-privacy-apple-google\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple, Google say lawful access bill could undermine user safety, privacy &#8211; National https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11865152\/lawful-access-privacy-apple-google\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/apple-store-file-may-26-e1779824191346.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256273","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\/256273"}],"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=256273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256278,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256273\/revisions\/256278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}