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The record shows courts and prosecutors have repeatedly treated -related evidence as a valuable investigative lead, but not as a standalone criminal smoking gun: law enforcement has used network inves...
Federal litigation over child‑pornography investigations that relied on Tor or other anonymizing networks has repeatedly centered on whether law enforcement can pierce anonymity, how evidence gathered...
Prosecutors in the United States have repeatedly used evidence gathered from Tor-related operations—most prominently the FBI’s Network Investigative Technique (NIT) deployed against the Playpen child‑...
A number of high‑profile federal cases and dozens of related prosecutions explicitly tie child‑pornography investigations to use of the Tor anonymity network, most famously the FBI’s takeover of the T...
No reported judicial decision squarely holds that *accidental access to content on the Tor network is categorically non‑criminal*. Courts have addressed adjacent issues — including expectations of pri...