TekSavvy is the only ISP in Canada (AFAIK) that publishes detailed information about how we handle requests from law enforcement. You can learn more from our Law Enforcement Guide, which includes what info we have about subscribers, and when we do or do not disclose it. www.teksavvy.com/pol...
9/9

Finally, as always: Sometimes our numbers don’t add up perfectly, or may not be totally complete, mostly because it's hard to perfectly keep track of every informal request, including so-called "jurisdiction requests". There may be small discrepancies in our numbers due to that.
8/9

Moving on, this quarter, we did not make any proactive reports to law enforcement. These are rare, like when an agent overhears violence or a threat. It is never related to a customer's online activity; we do not track that. From our stats, we make proactive disclosures about 5 times per year.
7/9

We disclosed information to 1 "Administrative" agency. That's an agency that is not technically "law enforcement", but they had the legal authority to *compel* disclosure, i.e. we had to disclose the information. Administrative agencies are typically a tax agency or the CRTC's enforcement folks.
6/9

There were 11 emergency requests this quarter, and we identified subscribers in 10 cases. We rejected 1 that came from a foreign law enforcement agency.

11 exigent requests is a new record for a quarter. (Average is 6). We got 7 in Q4 of 2024. The previous max was 10 in Q1 of 2024.
5/9

Since our disclosure rate is generally lower for provincial than for federal requests, our overall disclosure rate is also lower. From 2020-now, we disclosed info for ~90% of fed requests, but 62% of prov. Why? Fed agencies act fast while we have logs, and rarely make informal requests.
4/9

Requests from federal agencies remains very low compared to pre-2024, at just 1. From 2020-23, the avg number of fed requests per Q was 25; since 2024, it has been under 5. Fed requests dropped in 2024, while Prov requests rose. We don't know why it's happening; changes in police practices? 🤷
3/9

Download at www.teksavvy.com/pol... (🎉Now published in French too!)

The number of requests and disclosures in this report is average. In Q1 2025, we got 36 requests and orders, compared to:

45 in Q2 2023
38 in Q3 2023
59 in Q4 2023
39 in Q1 2024
40 in Q2 2024
40 in Q3 2024
39 in Q4 2024

2/9

The glasses are from Lumel Glass in Whitehorse, which we got there last year. shop.lumelstudios.com

For a Canadian take, read The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians: openlibrary.org/books/OL5336...

For an American take on a similar perspective, The Curse of Bigness: openlibrary.org/works/OL1976...

To keep things together, here's my short thread from June 2025 when the court first issued the orders: bsky.app/profile/andy... #siteblocking

Now we have to decide if we trade in the car or repair an exhaust leak, cracked windshield, slipping clutch, missing heat shields, bald tires, headlights and more. Just don't want to lose all those stickers!

We went to Algonquin Park, Lake Superior, Quetico, Grasslands, Waterton Lakes, Juan de Fuca, Revelstoke, Glacier, Yoho, Kootenay, Cypress Hills, Riding Mountain, Lake of the Woods, Pukaskwa, and more. An amazing tour of Canada if you want to spend 10 hours a day in a car and drive it into the ground