Does a container's design revealing its contents affect REP?

• A. Yes, REP exists unless contents revealed by container's design
• B. No
• C. Yes, always
• D. Only if sealed

Answer: (A)

The key idea is that a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy depends on what they have effectively exposed to others. If a container is designed to reveal what’s inside, those contents aren’t private anymore because the design itself discloses them. In that case, there isn’t a REP for the revealed contents. If the container doesn’t reveal its contents by design, there can still be a legitimate REP in what’s inside, so privacy could exist. So the best answer says REP exists unless the container’s design reveals its contents, capturing this conditional effect: privacy is lost for information the design makes visible, but can persist for information not disclosed by the design.