{"id":923216,"date":"2026-10-06T21:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923216\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:16:18","slug":"toronto-based-vpn-provider-plans-to-quit-canada-over-lawful-access-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923216\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada Over Lawful-Access Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Psiphon, a software company spun out of the Citizen Lab that helps internet users living under oppressive regimes evade online censorship, plans to leave Canada if the federal government\u2019s lawful-access bill passes in its current form, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/politics\/article-psiphon-vpn-provider-plans-to-quit-canada-over-lawful-access-bill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Globe and Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If passed, <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.ca\/research\/analysis-of-proposed-surveillance-law-expansion-under-bill-c-22\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill C-22<\/a> would require electronic service providers to make secret changes to their systems to provide police services and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) with surveillance and monitoring capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Psiphon was originally created as a Citizen Lab project in 2006, and became a private company soon afterward. It has 20 million monthly users worldwide that rely on the software to bypass online censorship in countries such as Iran, Myanmar, Russia, and China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite its Toronto roots, the company says it is prepared to move its operations out of Canada if Bill C-22 is passed, as it would be forced to compromise crucial safety features put in place to protect the privacy of its users.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Citizen Lab director and founder Ron Deibert says that Bill C-22 \u201cwill make it impossible for a large number of invaluable privacy-preserving tools and applications from operating in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Psiphon, a software company spun out of the Citizen Lab that helps internet users living under oppressive regimes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-923216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}