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Return to Sender: Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in R v Marakah

How private are your private messages? Can the police read the texts you send to others? This post explores R v Marakah, 2017 SCC 59, in which the Supreme Court of Canada found that a sender can have a reasonable expectation of privacy over messages retrieved from the phone of the person receiving those messages. The […]

R v Marakah: Sending Text Messages & The Reasonable Expectation of Privacy

** Author’s Note: This post is the product of a conversation I had with an expert on the case. I am humbled by and indebted to that person for their incredible kindness and for the time they took out of their busy schedule to discuss this topic with me. ** We sent an alarming 16 […]