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U.S. court allows evidence from FBI child porn site probe
Source: Reuters
#U.S. OCTOBER 27, 2017 / 7:51 PM / UPDATED 17 HOURS AGO
U.S. court allows evidence from FBI child porn site probe
Nate Raymond
3 MIN READ
BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a decision that threw out evidence obtained in an undercover FBI probe to charge a Massachusetts man prosecutors said was a user of the world’s largest child pornography website.
The ruling by 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston came in one of several cases stemming from a wide-ranging probe that privacy advocates have said could ultimately threaten the rights of internet users for years to come.
The court reversed a 2016 decision that held that a Virginia-based federal magistrate judge had no jurisdiction to issue a search warrant used to justify gathering evidence on Alex Levin of Norwood, Massachusetts.
The U.S. Justice Department had no immediate comment. A lawyer for Levin did not respond to a request for comment.
As of May, about 350 people in the United States had been arrested as part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe into the website Playpen, which the agency said had more than 150,000 users worldwide.
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U.S. court allows evidence from FBI child porn site probe
Nate Raymond
3 MIN READ
BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a decision that threw out evidence obtained in an undercover FBI probe to charge a Massachusetts man prosecutors said was a user of the world’s largest child pornography website.
The ruling by 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston came in one of several cases stemming from a wide-ranging probe that privacy advocates have said could ultimately threaten the rights of internet users for years to come.
The court reversed a 2016 decision that held that a Virginia-based federal magistrate judge had no jurisdiction to issue a search warrant used to justify gathering evidence on Alex Levin of Norwood, Massachusetts.
The U.S. Justice Department had no immediate comment. A lawyer for Levin did not respond to a request for comment.
As of May, about 350 people in the United States had been arrested as part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe into the website Playpen, which the agency said had more than 150,000 users worldwide.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-childporn/u-s-court-allows-evidence-from-fbi-child-porn-site-probe-idUSKBN1CW32V