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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by cortesoft on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:25AM (#21088412)
Unless they use parallel construction after the fact...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by monocasa on Friday September 27, 2019 @01:07AM (#21088623)
Which is the illegal part.
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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by jacquesm on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:28AM (#21089031)
That does not seem to be enough to stop it from happening.
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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by monocasa on Friday September 27, 2019 @11:23AM (#21092960)
The whole second half of my original comment is on how even if it was illegal, we still wouldn't be seeing them talking about it so publicly, comparing it to their use of stingrays which is pretty much veiled in secrecy.
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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by tareqak on Friday September 27, 2019 @01:27AM (#21088714)
But also a hard to discover part and a hard to fight part.
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