{"id":220520,"date":"2026-03-06T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/beyond-carpenter-a-legislative-framework-for-mobile-location-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:15:10","slug":"beyond-carpenter-a-legislative-framework-for-mobile-location-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/beyond-carpenter-a-legislative-framework-for-mobile-location-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Carpenter &#8211; A Legislative Framework for Mobile Location Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/beyond-carpenter---a-legislative-framework-for-mobile-location-privacy\">Beyond Carpenter &#8211; A Legislative Framework for Mobile Location Privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/beyond-carpenter---a-legislative-framework-for-mobile-location-privacy\">https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/beyond-carpenter&#8212;a-legislative-framework-for-mobile-location-privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 06:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.lawfaremedia.org\">www.lawfaremedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for compelled disclosure of historical cell-site location information. But Carpenter left unresolved critical questions: What about real-time collection? Direct collection by the government? Geofencing and tower dumps? Government purchases from data brokers? Duration thresholds? Emergency exceptions?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This report offers seven principles for updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Applying them to location data, it argues that merely codifying Carpenter would be insufficient. Instead, it proposes a new freestanding chapter of Title 18\u2014Chapter 120\u2014comprehensively regulating government acquisition of mobile location information.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Drawing on the Wiretap Act, the proposed chapter establishes a warrant requirement for all government acquisition of mobile location data, a two-stage judicial process for non-individualized searches like geofencing and tower dumps, emergency exceptions, a statutory suppression rule, minimization requirements, and notice provisions. The report includes proof-of-concept legislative text with a section-by-section analysis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This paper was published as part of a series marking the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. 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