An Ontario man convicted of trafficking handguns has been acquitted with a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that finds the text messages used to charge and prosecute him should have been considered private. But Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said that privacy expectation is not automatic, and must be assessed in "the totality of the circumstances." In this case, Marakah had made several requests for the text messages to be deleted from his accomplice's iPhone. She said it means all Canadians can expect that all text messages, when sent or received, are considered private. "Canadians can expect that their private, one-on-one communications with each other remain ones that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy."

Source: CBC News December 08, 2017 10:00 UTC