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Andy Kaplan-Myrth
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Telecom and Internet lawyer in Ottawa, open access/content/data/knowledge advocate. I work at TekSavvy, but views here are my own. I’m @kaplanmyrth on Twitter and most other […]

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@johannab Feel free to adopt our policies that are sketched out in the transparency reports and the Law Enforcement Guide!
October 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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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 five times per year […]
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October 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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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
Screenshot of text: 4) Administrative Requests Of the 36 requests received during this reporting period, 1 request for information was an “administrative request”. TekSavvy did not have any relevant information in response to this request. This category describes any requests for information about TekSavvy’s customers made by government agencies exercising their administrative powers. Administrative powers are, broadly speaking, powers that are created by law and exercised by government agencies or government officials, ranging from tax audits to the issuance of licences and permits.
October 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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There were 11 emergency requests this quarter, and we identified subscribers in 10 cases. We rejected on that came from a foreign law enforcement agency. We informed them that they should work with a Canadian agency instead.

11 exigent requests is a new record for […]

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Screenshot of text: 2) Emergency (Exigent) Requests Of the 36 requests received during this reporting period, 11 were requests for information in relation to exigent or emergency circumstances. TekSavvy provided the requested information in response to 10 of those requests. This category includes all requests made in relation to “an emergency that threatens the life, health or security of an individual” as set out in subsection 7(3)(e) of PIPEDA which allows organizations such as TekSavvy to disclose a subscriber’s personal information without their knowledge or consent. TekSavvy rejected one of these exigent requests since this request came from a foreign law enforcement agency. As explained in these reports under point number 8, TekSavvy informed this foreign law enforcement agency that they would need to work with a Canadian law enforcement agency to request or order TekSavvy to disclose the requested subscriber information.
October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Since our disclosure rate is generally lower for provincial than for federal requests, our overall disclosure rate is therefore also lower. From 2020-now, we disclosed information for ~90% of federal requests, but only 62% of provincial. Why? Federal agencies act fast while we have logs, and […]
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October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Requests from federal agencies remains very low compared to pre-2024, at just 1. From 2020-23, the avg number of federal requests per Q was 25, but since 2024, it has been under 5. This graph shows how requests from federal agencies feel off a cliff in 2024, while […]

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A line graph titled 'Requests for information from Federal agencies fell off a cliff in 2024' displays data from Q1 2017 to Q1 2025. It features two lines: yellow for provincial requests and blue for federal requests. The y-axis ranges from 0 to 50. Provincial requests fluctuate between roughly 10 and 44, with noticeable peaks in Q3 of 2022 and 2024, and show a rising trend in 2024. Federal requests decline sharply starting in Q2 2024, dropping to nearly zero by Q3 2024 and remaining low into 2025.
October 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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🎉 For the first time, the report is in French too! (But this summary is only in English…)
English reports (back to 2017 and earlier): https://www.teksavvy.com/policies/legal-stuff/transparency-report/
French reports […]

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Screenshot of the summary table in TekSavvy's quarterly transparency report for January to March 2025.
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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@jfmezei Yes
September 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
andykm.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy
For a Canadian take, read The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL53365106M/Big_Fix

For an American take on a similar perspective, The Curse of Bigness […]
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August 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Just to tie things together, here's my short thread about these new orders from June 2025:
https://mstdn.ca/@andykm/114705778802407896
#teksavvy #siteblocking
Andy Kaplan-Myrth :mapleleaf: (@andykm@mstdn.ca)
There's a significant development in the saga of website blocking in Canada: Quebec's agency that regulates financial markets is banning cryptoexchanges XT and CoinEx, and to enforce it they got a court order forcing listed ISPs to block the sites: https://lautorite.qc.ca/en/general-public/media-centre/news/major-issues/xtcom-coinex #siteblocking 1/3
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August 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
andykm.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy
We disclosed info 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
Administrative Requests Of the 49 requests received during this reporting period, 1 request for information was an “administrative request”. TekSavvy provided the requested information in response to this request. This category describes any requests for information about TekSavvy’s customers made by government agencies exercising their administrative powers. Administrative powers are, broadly speaking, powers that are created by law and exercised by government agencies or government officials, ranging from tax audits to the issuance of licences and permits.
July 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM