Digital service providers, including mobile carriers and internet companies, may have to retain some user metadata for up to one year under the government’s proposed Bill C-22, Public Safety Canada says.
The one-year period proposed under Bill C-22, also known as the Lawful Access Act, would serve as a maximum for certain types of data, while other types could be kept for shorter periods, Shannon Hiegel, director general of national security policy at Public Safety Canada, told a parliamentary committee on May 5.
“We have done a lot of country comparisons within our analysis. And so one year actually was quite common in being the average, like I said, Australia is on the higher end with the two-year,” Hiegel told the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security….