Canadian constitutional protection of privacy and many key aspects of the legal conception of privacy within Canada have been developed within the context of criminal prosecutions in which accused persons assert their section 8 Charter right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. Therefore, understanding of the section 8 framework is central to understanding the constitutional protection of privacy in Canada. Also explored are the three types of privacy (bodily, territorial, and informational) that the courts have identified and argues that emerging information and surveillance technologies have increasingly blurred the lines between these categories, leading to an erosion of privacy protection. The author argues for strong constitutional privacy protection that recognizes the broader social implications of the invasive profiling made possible through the aggregation of seemingly non-revealing and individually collected pieces of data. References