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United States v. Eldred

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided August 5, 2019No. 17-3367-cv; August Term 2018PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

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"), which allowed the FBI to circumvent the anonymizing features of the dark web and collect computer-related identifying information, including internet protocol ("IP") addresses, from the computers of these…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. United States v. LeonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Herring v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  3. Groh v. RamirezSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  4. Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
  5. Carpenter v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2018

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. United States v. Steven Vincent SmithCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2019
  2. United States v. Kyle BatemanCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2019
  3. United States v. WagnerCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2020
  4. United States v. JonesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2022
  5. United States v. CaraherCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2020

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