Supreme Court of Canada Rules That Text Messages Are Private

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @05:22AM from the haven-for-terrorist-scum dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that text messages are private communication (Official Ruling) and therefore police are required to get a warrant to gain access to the text messages of private citizens. The CBC reports: '[Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman] Abella said the only practical difference between text messaging and traditional voice communications is the transmission process. "This distinction should not take text messages outside the protection to which private communications are entitled," she wrote.'" Quite different from the attitude in the U.S.

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Re:Good news, but mostly moot. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-27 06:47 · Score: 0, Troll

Nope they're just people like you and me.
Incorrect. Most laws don't apply to them, much like the 1%. The phrase 'blue wall of silence' doesn't exist for nothing.
Stop thinking that life is 'fair'. We live in a caste society. We're in the lower caste, where the people here are simply a commodity to be used up and thrown away, and the upper caste gets all the money from it.
The sooner you realize this, the better, since you'll stop believing in fairy tales like free speech, innocent until proven guilty, fair trials, equality, and all those other make-believe things.