https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
> Fruit of the poisonous trees is a doctrine that extends the exclusionary rule to make evidence inadmissible in court if it was derived from evidence that was illegally obtained.
> Fruit of the poisonous trees is a doctrine that extends the exclusionary rule to make evidence inadmissible in court if it was derived from evidence that was illegally obtained.
Still dubious that this would be used that way just because telecoms would be aware of this potential for misuse and would not give the data up without a subpeona or warrant, which under this ruling would not be allowed.
Court: no
Government: how much $ for this data?
Telco/bigtechco: ah, now we're talking
Executive: ...Ah...
Another officer will get an "anonymous tip".
Two cops on The Wire do this, and basically register a tennis ball, hence the name, as their CI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GJa1_u-VLE