Archive for October, 2016

An Argument That Proves Too Much

  • October 30, 2016
  • Clayton Rice, K.C.

On September 28, 2016, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released its unanimous opinion in Commonwealth v White, No. SCJ-11917, upholding an evidence suppression ruling that probable cause to search or seize a suspect’s cellular telephone may not be based solely…

We’ll Think of Something

  • October 14, 2016
  • Clayton Rice, K.C.

On August 21, 2008, Nosakhare Ohenhen, a black man from Nigeria, was stopped by three police officers on bicycle patrol near the Parkdale Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario. He was driving a Jaguar sedan. On September 16, 2016, after an…

In a Queue of Strangers

  • October 2, 2016
  • Clayton Rice, K.C.

On July 13, 2016, Privacy International and Article 19 were granted leave by the European Court of Human Rights to intervene in Breyer and Breyer v Germany, App. No.: 5000/12. The case raises the data retention requirements in s. 111…