What is the test for privacy protection in the context of the Charter of Canada?

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


The following excerpt is from R. v. Price, 2020 NLSC 124 (CanLII):

Section 8 of the Charter provides that everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure. Section 8 protects people, not places, against unjustified intrusions on their privacy interests (Hunter v. Southam Inc., 1984 CanLII 33 (SCC), [1984] 2 S.C.R. 145 at 159).

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