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· 8/31/2023

Rodriguez Colon, Manuel Angel v. Rodriguez Colon, Wilfrido

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that telephone users had no subjective expectations of privacy in dialed telephone numbers and any such expectation was not one society was prepared to recognize
  • holding that “[w]hen [defendant] used his phone, [he] voluntarily conveyed numerical information to the telephone company and ‘exposed’ that information to its equipment in the ordinary course of business”
  • holding that the individual’s expectation of privacy triggering Fourth Amendment protections must be “one that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable”
  • holding that telephone users had no subjective expectations of privacy in dialed telephone numbers and any such expectation was not one society was prepared to recognize
  • holding that using a pen register on a phone did not violate the Fourth Amendment because a phone user has no reasonable expectation of privacy in the information provided to a third party by his voluntary use of a phone
  • holding no objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in numbers dialed on the telephone

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