Analysis Of The Katz Case Of Katz V. United States

According the Fourth Amendment, “protection applies only to situations where an individual has a subjective expectation of private that society willingly recognizes as reasonable” (Maras, 2015, p. 84). Thanks to the decision in the Katz v. United States case, the “reasonable expectation of privacy” test is used to established when law enforcement are allowed to conduct a search that does not violate one’s privacy (Maras, 2015). Information that is meant to be private and is contained in technology devices can be protected under the Fourth Amendment because the person’s intentions are to keep the information from the public (Maras, 2015). For example, in the Katz case there was a phone conversation that was admitted as evidence, but later found