Municipal WI-FI and the Third-Party Doctrine : Rethinking an Antiquated Framework

Municipal WI-FI and the Third-Party Doctrine : Rethinking an Antiquated Framework

Journal article

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This Note begins by briefly surveying the Fourth Amendment’s application in landmark modern-era Supreme Court cases and the accompanying issue of what constitutes a reasonable expectation of privacy. Next, Section I.C. introduces the “third-party doctrine” which states, in brief, that there is no Fourth Amendment interest in information knowingly and voluntarily revealed to “third parties.” Section I.D.will introduce the state-action doctrine. Section II examines whether the New York City government’s actions in hiring CityBridge to administer the LinkNYC program were sufficientto implicate the state-action doctrine and trigger the Fourth Amendment’s protections. Section III examines whether the LinkNYC Program implicates the third-party doctrine.

Published in : Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law, vol. 36, no. 2 (2018)

[New York City, New York] : Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 2018.

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