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Canada's Criminal Code exempts a person who has the express or implied consent of the originator of a private communication, or of the intended recipient.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“a person who has the consent to intercept, express or implied, of the originator of the private communication or of the person intended by the originator thereof to receive it”
Criminal Code (Canada) section 184: Interception, Parliament of Canada, Justice Laws Website, Government of Canada, n.d., 184(2)(a).
Open the original- What it measures
- Section 184 makes wilful interception of a private communication an offence. Subsection (2)(a) carves out a participant who has the consent of the originator or the intended recipient.
- What it does not show
- The exemption is a defence to the offence in section 184. It does not settle civil liability, and provincial privacy laws can also apply.