The right of all Canadians to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure protects the right to privacy from unjustified state intrusion. The purpose of the right requires that unjustified searches be prevented before they happen and not merely condemned after the fact. This can only be accomplished by a ...
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The meaning of a constitutional right is ascertained by an analysis of the purpose underpinning the right. Purpose is understood in light of the interests a right is meant to protect. In a case winding its way through the Court of King's Bench of Alberta at Calgary, Alberta, an application ...
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A former counterspy has been sentenced to prison by a New York court for his unlawful work for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. When he entered the guilty plea to violating U.S. sanctions against Russia stemming from its aggression in Ukraine he told the court he knew his investigative work for ...
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A jumble of squares in a grid is what the consumer sees when looking at QR codes. The simplicity makes them attractive to scammers who embed them with URLs containing custom malware or direct the user to a phishing site. But QR codes serve another purpose beyond facilitating consumer transactions ...
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The founder of crypto giant Binance has pleaded guilty to money laundering violations following an investigation spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian national, agreed to pay a fine of $50 million and to ...
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A fair trial is not a judicial inquest. In the Canadian adversarial system trial judges do not conduct inquiries on behalf of society at large. Although trial judges may assert trial management authority they must not descend into the arena and enter the fray. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has ...
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A criminal complaint was unsealed yesterday in Brooklyn, New York, charging three people with conspiracy to commit wire fraud stemming from a global procurement scheme on behalf of sanctioned Russian entities including companies affiliated with the Russian military. Some of the technology was found in seized Russian weapons platforms and ...
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The detention of two journalists by Polish military officers and the searches of their cellphones and cameras for information documenting events near Poland's border with Belarus has reached the European Court of Human Rights. The case presents an opportunity to consider again the highly intrusive nature of digital searches and ...
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The constitutional prohibition of arbitrary detention in Canada limits the ability of the state to impose intimidating and coercive pressure on the citizen without adequate justification. Yet the experience of radicalized youth and those living in low income neighbourhoods is one of differential treatment and lost hope in the right ...
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Modern automobiles are prodigious datavores. But owners have little control over the personal information their vehicles collect and many manufacturers share it with government or law enforcement for the asking. No longer designed simply for transportation the automobile has been transformed into a corporate surveillance machine. Long gone is the ...
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