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riana

Important 4th Amendment private search doctrine opinion yesterday relating to the CyberTipline:

The Second Circuit has joined the Ninth Circuit in requiring human review by platform personnel before LE may warrantlessly open suspected CSAM files in a CyberTip, disagreeing with Fifth and Sixth Circuit decisions to the contrary that found a hash match sufficient. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions

The report I coauthored earlier this year discusses the circuit split on this issue: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news