R. v. Bykovets
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2 months ago |
law360.ca | R. v. Bykovets
By Neha Chugh ( January 31, 2025, 2:53 PM EST) -- In R. v. Bykovets, 2024 SCC 6, Justice Andromache Karakatsanis writes, “[The Internet] has (…) [become] the most expansive cultural artifact our species has ever created.” Lisa Silver writes in “The Unclear Picture of Social Media Evidence,” Manitoba Law Journal 43 (2020), that social media leaves its footprint by creating a social artifact.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
law360.ca | R. v. Bykovets
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By Cristin Schmitz ( January 24, 2025, 3:26 PM EST) -- Supreme Court of Canada Justice Andromache Karakatsanis has seen many changes at the court since she was appointed in 2011 but its recent historic transformation into a fully bilingual female-majority court is “fantastic,” she says....
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Oct 4, 2024 |
law360.ca | R. v. Bykovets
By Sana Sajid (October 4, 2024, 10:47 AM EDT) -- Our understanding of privacy and its protection has evolved significantly. Section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees that “everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.” As “supreme law,” Charter privacy protections must address legal frameworks regulating technological advancements....
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Jun 11, 2024 |
fieldlaw.com | R. v. Bykovets
In a split 5:4 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) recently decided that an IP address carries a reasonable expectation of privacy and should be considered personal information. In its decision, Canada's top court waxed poetic in describing the internet as "the most expansive cultural artifact our species has ever created", where humans go to fetch recipes, get directions, and find love. In R. v.
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Apr 17, 2024 |
slaw.ca | R. v. Bykovets |Martin Kratz |Alexandra Champagne |Sarah Sutherland
In R. v. Spencer[1] the Supreme Court of Canada held that a reasonable expectation of privacy attaches to subscriber information — the name, address, and contact information — associated with an individual Internet Protocol (IP) address. In R. v. Bykovets[2], the majority found that reasonable expectation of privacy extends to the numbers which make up an Internet protocol address even though those numbers might be changed at random by an Internet service provider.
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