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SCC finds warrant is required before first digital breadcrumb can be revealed
In a 5-4 split, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) concluded in R. v. Bykovets that IP addresses attract a reasonable expectation of privacy, and thus a request by the police for an IP address is a search under section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) requiring prior
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Protecting the Privacy of your IP Address
If s. 8 of the Charter is to meaningfully protect the online privacy of Canadians in today’s overwhelmingly digital world, it must protect their IP addresses. An IP address is the crucial link between an Internet user and their online activity. Viewed normatively, it is the key to unlocking a user’s Internet activity and, ultimately,
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