The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that tech companies including cybersecurity players have written to federal ministers urging further changes to Ottawa's lawful-access bill, saying it still creates "serious business risks" in its current form. The Globe's Marie Woolf writes that known as Bill C-22, the lawful-access bill would require telecoms, Internet companies and other digital service providers to make changes to their systems to give surveillance and monitoring capabilities to police services and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. CSIS and police have long argued that Canada is lagging behind its Five Eyes intelligence partners in not having such a lawful-access regime to aid investigations. Tech giants including Apple and Meta say the bill could compromise Canadians' cybersecurity and privacy. The bill is now due to be scrutinized in the Senate. The letter sent Thursday was signed by 20 tech organizations and companies, including security companies that provide virtual private networks, or VPNs, that encrypt a user's Internet traffic and can disguise the location where they are connecting to the Internet from. "A backdoor for law enforcement is a backdoor for everyone," the letter says.