In a decision that is expected to impact future privacy-related cases, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a teacher who secretly filmed female students' chests with a camera pen is guilty of voyeurism, CBC News reports. While lower courts had previously ruled that students had no reasonable expectation of privacy while at school, the Supreme Court's unanimous decision found that students had a reasonable expectation of privacy, even if the school employs security cameras. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Richard Wagner wrote, "The explicit focus of the videos on the bodies of the students recorded, including their breasts, leaves me in no doubt that the videos were made in violation of the students' reasonable expectations of privacy."
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