IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
WESTERN DISTRICT
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : No. 15 WAL 2018
:
Respondent :
: Petition for Allowance of Appeal from
: the Order of the Superior Court
v. :
:
:
JON ERIC SHAFFER, :
:
Petitioner :
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 2nd day of July, 2018, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is
GRANTED. The issue, truncated and slightly rephrased, is:
Does an individual give up his expectation of privacy in the closed private
files stored on his computer, merely by taking his computer to a commercial
establishment for service or repair, where the service or repair requested
does not render the viewing of the citizen[’]s closed private files as
foreseeable to either the customer or the computer technician?