Quotation of the Day for March 28, 2013
"Text messaging is, in essence, an electronic conversation. Technical differences inherent in new technology should not determine the scope of protection afforded to private communications. 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 under Part VI."
- Rosalie Abella, Canadian Supreme Court Justice, in a decision declaring that police need a wiretap order to seize text messages.
[http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/27/technology-telus-text-messages-scc-decision.html]
[http://scc.lexum.org/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/12936/index.do]
Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 27, 2013
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