Privacy in Electronic Devices at the Border
- August 16, 2018
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On July 18, 2018, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a joint Brief of Amici Curiae in United States v Donald Wanjiku, Case No 18-1973, before the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, in Chicago,…
Technology Is Not Neutral
- July 28, 2018
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Facebook’s stock price took a 20% tumble this week. In an article titled Does Facebook’s plummeting stock spell disaster for the social network? published in the July 26,…
Democracy and Cybersecurity
- July 14, 2018
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On June 5, 2018, Professor Jack Goldsmith of Harvard Law School and Stuart Russell, a visiting fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University, published a Hoover Institution essay titled Strengths Become Vulnerabilities: How A Digital World Disadvantages The United…
Tireless and Absolute
- June 30, 2018
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On June 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States released the 5-4 opinion in Carpenter v United States, 585 US _ (2018) holding that a warrant is required for law enforcement to obtain cell site location information (CSLI)…
Too Good for the Neighbourhood
- June 16, 2018
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The exclusion of unlawfully obtained evidence from a criminal trial in Canada is governed by s 24(2) of the Charter of Rights. Evidence obtained in a manner that infringed a Charter right shall be excluded if its admission in the…