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    Infrastructure Summer 2019

    Vol. 58 No. 4   September 2019

    Telecommunications

    The California Consumer Privacy Act: The First Step Towards an American GDPR?

    By Christian F. Binnig and Christopher S. Comstock

    The California Consumer Privacy Act, which takes effect January 1, 2020, may herald the coming of a comprehensive consumer data privacy regime in the United States similar to that of Europe’s GDPR. Businesses are advised to understand the CCPA and carefully monitor future developments.

    Telecommunications

    Carpenter and Everything After: The Supreme Court Nudges the Fourth Amendment into the Information Age

    By Christopher C. Fonzone, Kate Heinzelman, and Michael R. Roberts

    In Carpenter v. United States in 2018, the Supreme Court held that an individual has a Fourth-Amendment protected “reasonable expectation of privacy” in a wireless carrier’s historical cell-site locational information. It appeared to be a landmark search-and-seizure decision. Or was it?

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