News Summary

• Apple and Meta have opposed a Canadian bill that the companies say could force them to create backdoor access to encrypted user data.
• Proposed by Canada's ruling Liberal Party, Bill C-22 contains provisions that could be similar to a UK data access provision order sent to Apple last year.
• Back in February 2025, the British government demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud.
• Apple refused, and instead pulled its Advanced Data Protection iCloud feature from the United Kingdom.