Les messages textes jouissent d'une expectative de vie privée même lorsqu'ils visent des communications criminelles

R. v. Campbell, 2022 ONCA 666

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[38]      Text messaging may reveal an individual’s personal and lifestyle choices, including their daily activities, things “that they would never reveal to the world at large”: at para. 36. This might include criminal activities. Communications of this type may also be enveloped in a reasonable expectation of privacy because, “[t]o be meaningful, the s. 8 analysis must be content neutral”: at para. 48. This approach has been followed for over three decades, since the decision in R. v. Wong, 1990 CanLII 56 (SCC), [1990] 3 S.C.R. 36. See Coughlan, at pp. 63-64 and Chelsey Buggie, “Talking to Strangers: A Critical Analysis of the Supreme Court of Canada’s Decision in R. v. Mills” (2021) 44 Man. L.J. 108, at p. 119.