Rutgers freshman suicide after roommate broadcast gay sexual encounter online?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

that'll be interesting in court. When I lived in the dorm I had no expectation of privacy.

Not really.

He had not only a 'reasonable' expectation of privacy, but an expressed actual expectation of privacy as he asked his roommate if he would leave and his roommate told him he would.

I don't think it's a close question in general (afterall, you're essentially saying that facebook is a harbinger of death for privacy laws), but it's certainly not a close question in this case.

Even if a court finds that there's no reasonable expectation of privacy in a dorm room (and think of the trainwreck that precedent would cause. How many holes would be drilled into the co-eds rooms at that point?), it's not applicable here. 'Reasonable expectations' went out the window once he was given an actual expectation.