Digital Devices and Eroding Privacy From the Police
Section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states, “Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.”[i] This broad statement began its jurisprudential interpretive journey in the case of Hunter v Southam when the Canadian government, under statutory authority, authorized several civil servant investigators to enter the Edmonton Journal newspaper office and conduct a search of the premises.
