Something that I had long wondered was whether natural language search was truly being offered by the 6 tools
tested in Mart's study and it would appear, according to the research, that
none of the six legal database search
services offer true natural language search.
In R v Spencer, which dealt with informational privacy relating to Internet
service subscriber data in the hands
of third - party companies, Cromwell J, for the court, organized the expectation
of privacy analysis into four general areas: (1) the subject matter
of the alleged search; (2) the claimant's interest in the subject matter; (3) the claimant's subjective expectation
of privacy; and (4) whether this subjective expectation
of privacy was objectively reasonable, having regard to the totality
of the circumstances.6
None of these
tests are inconsistent; they are articulations
of the same overarching concerns grouped differently as suited to a particular inquiry.