On June 13, 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada, ruling in a case (R. v. Spencer, 2014 SCC 43) concerning police requesting information about online activity:
“Some degree of anonymity is a feature of much Internet activity and depending on the totality of the circumstances, anonymity may be the foundation of a privacy interest that engages constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure. In this case, the police request to link a given IP address to subscriber information was in effect a request to link a specific person to specific online activities. This sort of request engages the anonymity aspect of the informational privacy interest by attempting to link the suspect with anonymously undertaken online activities, activities which have been recognized in other circumstances as engaging significant privacy interests.”
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Creating and Sustaining Human Trust ~ Ann Racuya-Robbins