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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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