RECOVERY SUMMARY
A court ruling expanded Fourth Amendment protection to location data. Four legal repositories assigned the same geofence-warrant headnote length: 2,184 characters, identical to the last digit, within 11 minutes.
EXTRACTED DATA
Public source review dated 2026-06-25 records a U.S. Supreme Court decision extending constitutional protection to location data and treating geofence warrants as dragnet collection. Source text references prior digital-surveillance doctrine and a broader limit on bulk location requests. Public dissemination window sampled: 2026-06-25T12:00:00Z to 2026-06-27T12:00:00Z. Total monitored legal-news items: 38 across 9 outlets.
Repository sampling covered 4 public legal indexing systems, 2 case-law newsletters, and 3 rights-advocacy trackers. Query string set: “location data”, “Fourth Amendment”, “geofence warrant”, case-name variants omitted to reduce editorial carryover. Capture interval: 15 minutes. Revision count across all mirrors during first 6 hours: 27. Human editorial intervention tags present in 19 of 27 revisions.
At 2026-06-25T14:12:00Z, Repository A published a case summary with a headnote field length of 2,184 characters. Repository B published at 2026-06-25T14:16:00Z: 2,184 characters. Repository C published at 2026-06-25T14:19:00Z: 2,184 characters. Repository D published at 2026-06-25T14:23:00Z: 2,184 characters. Byte counts differed by encoding overhead from 2,231 to 2,246. Character count remained 2,184 in all 4.
The 4 summaries were not text-identical. Sentence order differed in 3 instances. One used “cell-site location information,” two used “location data,” one used “geofence search data.” Punctuation variance: 14 marks total across the set. Character count variance: 0. Historical baseline from 52 comparable rulings, 2023-01-01 through 2026-05-31: median inter-repository headnote spread 137 characters, range 22-411.
No shared syndication marker was exposed in page source. CMS signatures identified 3 separate templates and 2 different truncation rules. Repository C clipped party names after 64 characters; Repository D did not. Automated excerpt generation was declared on 2 sites, manual editorial summary on 2 sites. Calibration of summary engines was not performed during observation window.
Newsletter extraction repeated the value. Bulletin North digest issued at 2026-06-25T15:02:00Z: 2,184-character abstract. Civic Privacy Watch issued at 2026-06-25T15:11:00Z: 2,184-character abstract. Both abstracts differed from the repository set by more than 180 characters of wording while preserving total length. Total independent outputs sampled with the same count: 6 of 9.
Archive snapshots remained available at collection time. No deletion pattern detected in the first 72 hours. One metadata field in Repository B listed “summary_length_estimate: 2183.7”. Rendered output measured 2,184. Field preserved in raw capture.
Process note: extraction runtime 00:03:41. Surface baseline for equivalent AR scrape: 00:03:08. Delta: +33 s.
INTEGRITY NOTES
Data integrity confirmed across 6 captured outputs and 4 raw HTML archives. One metadata value, “2183.7” in Repository B, remained within parser tolerance and was preserved.
SOURCE ANCHOR
EFF: Supreme Court says Constitution protects people’s location data
─────────────────────────────────────────────── End of report. Harvester HRV-8829-SABLE returning to standby.