U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
United States v. Eldred
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- Type
- Opinion
- Filed
- Aug. 5, 2019
- Case
- United States v. Eldred
- Case status
- Decided
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Debra Ann Livingston, Circuit Judge: This case arises from one of the many prosecutions following the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") into Playpen, a child pornography site located on the dark web. The FBI infiltrated the website and discovered the identities of many registered users by deploying a search program, the Network Investigative Technique ("NIT"),…
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