In a unanimous 7-0 vote, the Supreme Court of Canada rules there is no expectation of privacy related to the exchange of explicit online messages with a minor, CBC News reports. The court determined such messages can be used by police in child luring cases without a warrant. Sean Mills, who was convicted on a count of child luring in 2014, argued his constitutional right to privacy was violated and that police did not obtain a court order for intercepting private online exchanges. Despite citing different reasons for their ruling, the justices all disagreed with Mills' argument. "He was communicating with someone he believed to be a child, who was a stranger to him, and the undercover officer knew this when he created her," Justice Russell Brown wrote in his judgment.
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