The Canadian Press reports: A group of strippers and their waitress colleagues who met on the roof for their breaks have found out their hideaway wasn’t as private as they thought. Women working at the Zanzibar Tavern, a strip club in Toronto, believed no one could see them when they popped out for a cigarette…
Category: Non-U.S.
Divided Supreme Court puts limit on privacy expectations
Janice Tibbetts reports on a Canadian court ruling mentioned previously on this blog: The right to privacy in one’s home is not absolute, the Supreme Court of Canada said Wednesday in a ruling that allowed police to conscript a Calgary power company to collect details of a customer’s electricity use to determine if he was…
Ca: No breach of privacy in Calgary grow-op case, Supreme Court rules
Kirk Makin reports: A man’s home may be his castle, but records that show its electricity usage can become the property of the police, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today. In an important ruling delineating limits to the right to privacy, a 7-2 majority said that police can obtain utility records to determine whether…
Teen avoids criminal record for ‘humiliating’ secret sex tape
Daryl Slade reports: A teenager who subjected his girlfriend to what she called “the most horrifying degradation and humiliation I believe I will ever feel” by secretly taping them having sex will escape the stigma of a criminal record. The University of Alberta student pleaded guilty last month to voyeurism for using a friend’s webcam…