FBI ran child-porn site for 2 weeks!
Privacy group says criminal case ‘likely to impact digital privacy rights for years’
BOB UNRUH
WND.com
9/16/2016
There is no doubt that the crimes were “distasteful” and the law needs to be applied to those who engage in child pornography.
But one of the nation’s top privacy organizations is warning that the precedents the FBI set in its investigation of the “Playpen” case is “likely to impact the digital privacy rights of Internet users for years to come.”
Because the child porn site operator – for some two weeks – was the FBI. And bureau also hacked thousands of individuals’ computers in its investigation, based on a single search warrant.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the FBI in December 2014 received a tip from a law enforcement agency overseas that a Tor hidden service site, which conceals the users’ identities, called “Playpen” was filled with child porn.
That case now has resulted in “hundreds of criminal prosecutions” in the federal court system.
EFF said “the issues in these cases are technical and the alleged crimes are distasteful.”
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