It's a win/lose for privacy in Canada. Obviously, giving officers the ability to search phones without a warrant is a bit troubling. However, the Supreme Court

It's a win/lose for privacy in Canada. Obviously, giving officers the ability to search phones without a warrant is a bit troubling. However, the Supreme Court has made it abundantly clear that phones without pass-codes still contain intensely private information, and thus are still subject to privacy implications. It's just unfortunate that this bit narrowly passed. (4-3) > An individual’s decision not to password protect his or her cell phone does not indicate any sort of abandonment of the significant privacy interests one generally will have in the contents of the phone. Cell phones – locked or unlocked – engage significant privacy interests. - The majority ruling's statement[0] [0] http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/12/supreme-courts-privacy-streak-comes-end-split-court-affirms-legality-warrantless-phone-searches-incident-arrest/ http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/12/supreme-courts-privacy-st...