A text message will remain confidential once you submit it, strip the supreme Court

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Friday, December 8, 2017 10:27

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A citizen is entitled to expect privacy in his text messages, even on the phone the other, ruled on Friday morning the supreme Court of Canada.

In a judgment expected, the country’s highest court has ruled that privacy does not stop once a text message was received by the addressee. It thus set aside the convictions against a man from Ontario who was accused of arms trafficking.

The complainant Nour Marakah had argued that text messages that he had sent on the iPhone of his co-accused, Peter Winchester, were inadmissible in court. The same evidence obtained on the BlackBerry phone of Marakah had been judged, they will not be eligible.

An ontario court had found guilty of seven counts on the basis of the received text messages by Winchester. The judge had decreed that the message sender had more control over its content once it had been received by the addressee.

The canadian civil liberties Association intervened in this matter, fearing that a breach of the right to privacy opens the door to searches that are unreasonable.