 In 2013 , Sotomayor 's unjoined concurrence in the prior year 's United States v. Jones decision , in which she said that in the digital age , " It may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties , " was cited by federal judge Richard Leon in his ruling that the National Security Agency 's bulk collection of Americans ' telephony records likely violated the Fourth Amendment . Law professors Adam Winkler and Laurence Tribe were among those who said that Sotomayor 's Jones concurrence had been influential in calling out the need for a new basis in understanding privacy requirements in a world , as she wrote , " in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks . " 
