National Post: “We’ve obviously been paying close attention to comments about lack of clarity about encryption, for example, and questions about whether or not there’s direct access by law enforcement, and comments about mass surveillance,” Richard Bilodeau, the Public Safety Canada’s acting assistant deputy minister for the cybersecurity branch, told National Post Tuesday.
…Government officials from Public Safety, the RCMP, CSIS and Justice Canada organized the briefing in response to growing concerns from civil liberty advocates, business groups, technology companies and senior U.S. Republican politicians about the powers Bill C-22 proposes for police and Canada’s spy agency…