Justice Antonin Scalia, who died over the weekend, was credited with protecting citizens’ privacy rights in several decisions he wrote. The associate justice who’ll replace Scalia could be in tune with Sotomayor and Alito in how to apply Fourth Amendment protections by weakening the third-party doctrine. The doctrine holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties such as banks, phone companies and Internet service providers have no reasonable expectation of privacy. That could include private information individuals store themselves on cloud services they use.”]
Source: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/blogs/scalias-heir-could-sway-privacy-protections-p-2060