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Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by hwillis on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:07PM (#41229319)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

> Fruit of the poisonous trees is a doctrine that extends the exclusionary rule to make evidence inadmissible in court if it was derived from evidence that was illegally obtained.

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Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by andrewla on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:12PM (#41229357)
GP is probably referring to the practice of "Evidence Laundering" which has been deployed from time to time by law enforcement.

Still dubious that this would be used that way just because telecoms would be aware of this potential for misuse and would not give the data up without a subpeona or warrant, which under this ruling would not be allowed.

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Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by cryptonector on Monday August 12, 2024 @06:01PM (#41229845)
Government: we want a geofence warrant for ...

Court: no

Government: how much $ for this data?

Telco/bigtechco: ah, now we're talking

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Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by salawat on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:33AM (#41233486)
Legislative branch: No spending on that.

Executive: ...Ah...

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Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by ceejayoz on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @08:42AM (#41234895)
More like "Executive: lol".
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Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by ceejayoz on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:10PM (#41229348)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

Another officer will get an "anonymous tip".

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Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by FireBeyond on Monday August 12, 2024 @10:29PM (#41231600)
"Our Confidential Informant, Fuzzy Dunlop".

Two cops on The Wire do this, and basically register a tennis ball, hence the name, as their CI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GJa1_u-VLE

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Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by hwillis on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @12:50PM (#41237133)
Search warrants are usually public record after they are unsealed. If they aren't included in evidence its a Brady violation and if caught the case is essentially dead. If the defense sees that the search warrant was given or executed first, they probably have a very strong argument that all the evidence is tainted. Parallel construction doesn't work very well when proof of tainted evidence is publicly available.
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Re:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categor... by cryptonector on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:59PM (#41229827)
Back reconstruction enters the chat
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