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Maureen Henry took on the tech giants this month — and won.
The Ottawa mother was seeking access to the digital footprint left by her son Dovi, 23, who was found dead along Toronto’s waterfront in July 2014 but not identified for nearly two years.
The police suspect it was suicide; Henry refuses to believe it. Because the Glebe Collegiate graduate and former U of T student had been in the water for some weeks, the time and cause of death could not be determined. An investigation failed to piece together the circumstances surrounding his final days.
So Henry went to court Oct. 10 to obtain access to his cellphone records and email accounts.
She asked Mr. Justice Martin S. James to order Bell Mobility, Google Canada, Facebook and Apple to provide any information about Dovi’s email accounts, including passwords, Facebook messaging trail as well as incoming and outgoing calls on his cellular phone.
She believes the log of his phone calls and a review of his online correspondence will be important clues to his demise.
The judge agreed and, in dry legal language, indirectly said something about the power of a mother’s love.
“These entities are rightly concerned that they have a responsibility to protect personal information even when the customer is dead. In the circumstances here, however, I think the Applicant has demonstrated a reasonable basis for requesting access to the records,” he wrote in an Oct. 11 ruling.
Henry, an aspiring poet and musician, was last known to be in Ottawa in May 2014 for a poetry event, then returned to Toronto, where he was living. Then things went silent. His mother spent the next 18 months trying to find him, pestering both Ottawa and Toronto police to begin missing person investigations.
It was only after her own online detective work, in fact, that police acted on a suspicion that a missing person’s description on an OPP website might be Dovi. A check of dental records proved it was.
Henry is now awaiting the requested records.
To contact Kelly Egan, please call 613-726-5896 or email kegan@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/kellyegancolumn
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The Ottawa mother was seeking access to the digital footprint left by her son Dovi, 23, who was found dead along Toronto’s waterfront in July 2014 but not identified for nearly two years.
The police suspect it was suicide; Henry refuses to believe it. Because the Glebe Collegiate graduate and former U of T student had been in the water for some weeks, the time and cause of death could not be determined. An investigation failed to piece together the circumstances surrounding his final days.
So Henry went to court Oct. 10 to obtain access to his cellphone records and email accounts.
She asked Mr. Justice Martin S. James to order Bell Mobility, Google Canada, Facebook and Apple to provide any information about Dovi’s email accounts, including passwords, Facebook messaging trail as well as incoming and outgoing calls on his cellular phone.
She believes the log of his phone calls and a review of his online correspondence will be important clues to his demise.
The judge agreed and, in dry legal language, indirectly said something about the power of a mother’s love.
“These entities are rightly concerned that they have a responsibility to protect personal information even when the customer is dead. In the circumstances here, however, I think the Applicant has demonstrated a reasonable basis for requesting access to the records,” he wrote in an Oct. 11 ruling.
Henry, an aspiring poet and musician, was last known to be in Ottawa in May 2014 for a poetry event, then returned to Toronto, where he was living. Then things went silent. His mother spent the next 18 months trying to find him, pestering both Ottawa and Toronto police to begin missing person investigations.
It was only after her own online detective work, in fact, that police acted on a suspicion that a missing person’s description on an OPP website might be Dovi. A check of dental records proved it was.
Henry is now awaiting the requested records.
To contact Kelly Egan, please call 613-726-5896 or email kegan@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/kellyegancolumn
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