Bill C-22 and TypexAI Cloud in Canada

Published: September 26, 2026

Canada is moving forward with Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. The bill lets the government designate certain online services as core providers and require them to build the technical capability to extract user data and hand it over to authorities on request. It can also order metadata retention of up to six months, covering every user of a designated service, not just people under investigation.

The bill doesn't force providers to break encryption. It requires something else: a capability to extract and organize data on request, which can mean redesigning how a system stores data without touching a single encryption key.

Bardo can run fully local, with no account and no server, and that mode isn't touched by any of this. TypexAI Cloud powers sync across Bardo Android, Bardo Windows, and Bardo Web, plus the product we're building on top of it. It's how most people actually use Bardo across their devices.

We built Cloud around one idea: we shouldn't hold data we don't need, and we shouldn't be able to hand it over even if asked. If a future regulation under this bill forces us to build that kind of extraction capability or retain data in bulk, we'll stop offering Cloud and Plus in Canada rather than build it, and we'll give people notice first so they can grab their data.