Canada’s federal C-2 Strong Borders Act is a sweeping and controversial bill that is currently moving through Parliament. The bill includes ‘lawful access’ provisions, unrelated to borders, that expand state powers to access personal information held by electronic service providers. This is not the first time that lawful access powers have been proposed, and privacy advocates across Canada have raised serious concerns about the implications of these measures.
Join me, FIPA president Mike Larsen, and guest Robert Diab, Professor of Law at Thompson Rivers University, for a discussion of C-2 and lawful access. Robert Diab is the author of Search and Seizure (Irwin Law, 2023), and an expert on search powers, technology, and privacy in Canada.
Read Robert’s article, The proposed Strong Borders Act gives police new invasive search powers that may breach Charter rights, at The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/the-proposed-strong-borders-act-gives-police-new-invasive-search-powers-that-may-breach-charter-rights-258257
Find him on Substack at https://robertdiab.substack.com/, and at https://www.robertdiab.ca
Listen to our commentary with Michael Geist on Bill C-4: https://fipanews.podbean.com/e/Commentary-Bill-C-4-w-Michael-Geist
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