Privacy Rights in Residential Buildings
- July 20, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
A thorn in s. 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights, and in Fourth Amendment doctrine in the United States, has been this question: Do condominium owners and apartment lessees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the common areas of…
The Crypto War Is Obsolete
- July 12, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On June 29, 2015, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron caught the public ear again by claiming that the Bogeyman is lurking somewhere on the Internet. Mr. Cameron said that the privacy policies of companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter…
Wiretap Reports: Canada and the United States
- July 6, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
In my post titled The Right to Notification dated August 2, 2014, I discussed s. 196 of the Criminal Code which contains the post facto transparency rule that a person who was the subject of a wiretap interception must be given…
Fourth Amendment Protects Hotel Records: U.S. Supreme Court Rules
- July 2, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On June 22, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States released its ruling in City of Los Angeles v. Patel et al, 576 U.S. _ (2015) that: (1) facial constitutional challenges can be brought under the Fourth Amendment; and,…
Intercepts by GCHQ Violated Privacy Rights
- June 28, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On June 22, 2015, the British government’s intelligence monitoring agency released its ruling that the interception of private communications of two international human rights groups by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was illegal and in breach of Article 8 of…