Privacy Rights
PRIVACY
The Fourth Amendment must survive the digital age.
MPA supports strong protection of:
Communications
Location information
Medical information
Personal data
Financial information
Biometrics
Digital activity
Government should not evade warrant requirements by simply purchasing sensitive data from private brokers.
Persistent facial-recognition and drone surveillance should face meaningful constitutional safeguards.
PROPOSED / DRAFT — NO MANDATORY UNIVERSAL SOCIAL ID
MPA opposes creating a centralized identification, biometric, digital-identity, or social-credit system that becomes a mandatory permission slip for participating in ordinary society.
Identification may legitimately be required for specific purposes, but Americans should not need one centralized government credential simply to work, shop, travel domestically, communicate, own property, or otherwise participate in ordinary life.
Identification should verify who you are—not determine whether you are allowed to live your life.
PROPOSED / DRAFT — DIGITAL PRIVACY, WARRANTS & GOVERNMENT DATA ACCESS
The government should not obtain a person's private digital information merely because a private company possesses it. Constitutional protections should follow the person and the information, not disappear when data is stored with a third party.
Search warrants for homes, devices, communications, location history, medical records, financial records, biometrics, cloud files, and similarly sensitive data should require particularized probable cause, a clearly identified person or account, a defined category of information, and a limited time period. Broad, speculative, reverse, dragnet, or general warrants should be prohibited.
Government may not purchase, request, pressure, encourage, or indirectly obtain sensitive consumer information from data brokers or private companies to evade a warrant requirement.
Private companies should be prohibited from voluntarily providing identifiable consumer information to government when no lawful request has been made, except with the consumer's informed consent, to make a legally required report, or during a documented emergency involving an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury. Emergency disclosure must be narrowly limited to information necessary to address the emergency and must receive prompt judicial review.
Government requests should be written, logged, subject to audit, and disclosed to the affected person after any lawful delay necessary to protect an active investigation. Improper acquisition or disclosure should support suppression of evidence, civil remedies, agency discipline, and appropriate criminal penalties for intentional violations.
MPA opposes government surveillance of lawful financial transactions. Lawful purchases, transfers, donations, associations, and personal spending should not be monitored merely because they are unusual, unpopular, or politically disfavored.
MPA opposes creation of a retail central-bank digital currency that would permit the federal government to maintain individual consumer accounts, track lawful purchases, restrict lawful transactions, impose programmable spending rules, or condition access to money on political or social approval.
Constitutional considerations: Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures; First Amendment protection for speech and association; Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process.
PROPOSED / DRAFT: PROPERTY OWNERSHIP PRIVACY & CONTACT RELAY
Private property ownership is private. Owning a home, land, or other real property should not make a person's identity, home address, mailing address, contact information, or other properties freely searchable by the general public.
Government may maintain accurate ownership, beneficial-ownership, tax, and chain-of-title records necessary to protect ownership, prevent fraud, administer the law, and complete lawful property transactions. The identity and contact information of a natural person who owns property should be confidential by default.
PUBLIC PROPERTY INFORMATION
The public may continue to access nonidentifying property information that serves a legitimate public purpose, including parcel boundaries, legal descriptions, zoning, assessed value, tax status, permits, liens, easements, and recorded restrictions. Public databases may not permit name-based property searches, bulk downloads of owner identities, commercial harvesting, or resale of confidential owner information.
For property held by a business, trust, or other legal entity, the entity name may remain part of the property record. The government must maintain verified beneficial-ownership information, but the identities and contact information of natural persons behind the entity remain confidential except through an authorized disclosure.
CONTACT THROUGH THE COUNTY
A person seeking to contact a property owner must submit the correspondence to the county office responsible for the property. The sender must identify themselves, provide a return address or other verified contact method, identify the property, and certify that the communication is not being sent to threaten, harass, defraud, or evade the law.
The county must record the request and forward the unopened correspondence to the owner within 10 business days by certified mail, another trackable carrier, or a secure electronic method previously approved by the owner. The county may charge no more than its reasonable actual delivery cost.
The county may not disclose the owner's identity, address, contact information, response, or decision not to respond. The owner alone decides whether to respond or reveal their identity or contact information.
LIMITED AUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE
Owner-identifying information may be accessed or disclosed only to the minimum extent reasonably necessary for:
the owner's written consent;
a valid court order, warrant, subpoena, or other lawful judicial process;
tax assessment or collection, recording, title verification, a lawful transfer, probate, service of process, lien or foreclosure proceedings, code enforcement, or emergency response;
a specific government duty that cannot reasonably be completed without the information;
an owner-authorized transaction involving a lender, insurer, attorney, title or escrow company, surveyor, buyer, or other verified participant;
a documented emergency involving imminent danger of death, serious bodily injury, or substantial property destruction; or
a legally required ethics or conflict-of-interest disclosure involving a public official, public contract, or public funds.
Access must be role based, purpose limited, and restricted to the minimum information required. An authorized recipient may not republish, sell, or use the information for an unrelated purpose.
ACCESS RECORDS, CORRECTION & ACCOUNTABILITY
Every access or disclosure must be logged. An owner may obtain an access history unless a court has authorized a temporary delay to protect an active investigation or another person from a specific danger.
An owner may challenge inaccurate ownership or contact information. A complete correction request must receive a written decision within 30 calendar days, an independent appeal within the next 30 calendar days, and a complaint or final independent review within the following 30 calendar days. On day 91, administrative remedies are exhausted and judicial review is available.
Intentional or reckless unauthorized access, disclosure, concealment, commercial sale, or misuse should support correction, actual damages, appropriate statutory damages, reasonable attorney fees and court costs, employment or professional discipline, and criminal penalties where the proven conduct warrants them. Exact penalties will be reviewed under the MPA issue-by-issue enforcement process.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Modern technology allows government and private companies to reconstruct a person's movements, relationships, beliefs, health, finances, and daily life. Constitutional protection becomes meaningless if government can buy or request information it could not lawfully seize directly.
WHAT MPA WILL DO
Require a particularized warrant for sensitive location, communications, device, medical, financial, biometric, and cloud data, subject only to narrow documented emergencies with prompt judicial review.
Prohibit government purchase or indirect acquisition of sensitive personal data to evade constitutional process.
Require data brokers to register, disclose categories and buyers, honor access and deletion rights, secure data, and stop selling sensitive information without lawful consent.
Limit retention of government-acquired data to the period justified by law and require deletion when the lawful purpose ends.
Require annual public reports on requests, purchases, emergency disclosures, errors, breaches, and discipline, with necessary investigative redactions.
Provide suppression, civil damages, attorney fees, agency discipline, and criminal penalties where intentional misconduct warrants them.
WHAT MPA WILL MEASURE
Government data requests and purchases; warrant approval and rejection rates; emergency requests later rejected; retention and deletion compliance; breach frequency; civil findings of unlawful surveillance; and time required for citizens to access, correct, or delete broker-held data.
PURPOSE-LIMITED IDENTITY MODERNIZATION
The United States should modernize existing identification and verification systems without creating one universal permission slip for participating in society.
A lawful identification system must be:
Purpose limited.
Available without excessive fees.
Protected by strong encryption and access controls.
Correctable through a prompt appeal.
Usable without constant internet access where practical.
Designed to disclose only the minimum fact required.
A correction request must receive a written decision within 30 calendar days, an independent appeal decision within the next 30 calendar days, and any complaint or independent review within the next 30 calendar days. On day 91, administrative remedies are exhausted and judicial review is available.
Proving age should not automatically reveal a person's full identity. Proving citizenship or work authorization should not disclose unrelated medical, financial, political, or location information.
No person may be forced to receive an implanted chip, physical mark, biometric implant, or universal digital credential to work, purchase ordinary goods, travel domestically, communicate, worship, or participate in society.
Related policies: Personal Data & Records Rights; Surveillance, Facial Recognition & Location Tracking; Connected Vehicles, Privacy & Remote Control; Search Warrants, Raids & Home Entry; Property Rights, Land Use & Off-Grid Living.
Status: Proposed / Draft — not yet formally adopted.
Originally published: August 15, 2026.
Last updated: October 4, 2026.
Version: Draft 0.8.