Bill S\u002D7 sets a new legal standard of \u0027reasonable general concern\u0027 in order to search personal digital devices, which civil liberties groups say is too…
“Crossing the border with a personal digital device is analogous to crossing the border with almost every piece of mail a person has ever received or sent,” Meghan McDermott, policy director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, said at a meeting of the Senate’s national security and defence committee.
The bill is the result of an Alberta court case that found the current situation under the Customs Act, which imposes no threshold, was unconstitutional. “If any devices carry a reasonable expectation of privacy, these do. Much more so than a suitcase, a purse or other piece of luggage.” Mendicino told senators the new threshold only applies at the border. “This is not a power that can be used outside of the border context. It is specifically designed to address that particular set of circumstances, which the Supreme Court of Canada has previously ruled does attract a lower expectation of privacy because is a vulnerable port of entry,” he said.
“The fact that there’s a lower expectation of privacy at the border is why we are unanimous in agreeing on a standard of reasonable grounds to suspect, which is a far lower standard than would be acceptable, I suspect, to any of our groups in criminal matters in a non-border context,” McPhail said. “One of the concerns about this new threshold, as opposed to using reasonable grounds to suspect, is that what we’ll see is years of legal cases being fought in order to try to define what this new legal standard will mean,” McSorley said.
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