• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s not admissible in court, is it? Maybe that’s why they have nothing to show for it? Obviously, that makes it pretty useless.

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      11 months ago

      Useless for justice, but if there was no purpose it wouldnt keep getting renewed. Information is power even if its never used.

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      11 months ago

      Parallel construction is their trick and is totally cool and fully legal according to our courts. We have no rights, only temporary freedoms.

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      11 months ago

      That’s a fun thought experiment. One way I think this could work is you find out someone is doing something illegal, so you have someone call in an “anonymous tip” which you use to get a search warrant, find what you already know is there, and then it’s fully “legal”