its trivial for well-funded organizations to get around such legal issues when they use something called “parallel construction” this is when evidence is colle

its trivial for well-funded organizations to get around such legal issues when they use something called “parallel construction” this is when evidence is collected in nefarious and often illegal ways. it is then given to the organization which will weaponize the information. this organization then launders how they acquired the evidence, obscuring the shady way it was originally obtained. there is no shortage of instances where different groups (including local police) have laundered how evidence was obtained to get around legality requirements for obtaining evidence.. [various links below] as the above commenter highlights, it’s about to get even more terrifying as incredibly well funded, incredibly authoritarian groups jump into the fray using religion as their excuse. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel... https://www.jurist.org/news/2018/01/hrw-us-authorities-concealing-information-about-how-evidence-was-obtained/ https://www.jurist.org/news/2018/01/hrw-us-authorities-conce... https://reason.com/2018/01/09/federal-agencies-may-be-regularly-hiding/?amp https://reason.com/2018/01/09/federal-agencies-may-be-regula... https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/aclu-foia-seeks-information-about-how-government https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te... https://www.techdirt.com/2014/02/03/parallel-construction-revealed-how-dea-is-trained-to-launder-classified-surveillance-info/ https://www.techdirt.com/2014/02/03/parallel-construction-re... https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origins-evidence-us-criminal-cases https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origi... https://www.scmagazine.com/news/security-news/fbi-stingray-nda-instructs-police-to-use-parallel-construction https://www.scmagazine.com/news/security-news/fbi-stingray-n... https://www.wired.com/story/stingray-secret-surveillance-programs/amp https://www.wired.com/story/stingray-secret-surveillance-pro...