Privacy Rights
48. 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.
49. AI, TECHNOLOGY & CYBERSECURITY
America should lead the technological future.
MPA supports:
• Critical-infrastructure cybersecurity
• Identity protection
• Deepfake protections
• AI impersonation protections
• Intellectual-property protection
• Children's online safety
• American semiconductor capacity
• Quantum research
• Advanced computing
When government uses AI to make consequential decisions affecting liberty, benefits, taxation, employment, policing, or similar matters, a human government official must remain accountable.
Government should never be able to say:
"The algorithm decided."
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.
Status: Proposed / Draft — not yet formally adopted.
Last updated: August 24, 2026.
Version: Draft 0.2.