Can someone correct me if I’m wrong here, but I thought that if the government is funding the activity, just like a CSI lab, that the funded party still has to have the same warrants to be able to conduct the search legally.
It definitely shouldn’t hold up in court since any further information gained due to the unwarranted information would be attributed as poison fruit and inadmissible.
Am I incorrect in thinking that contracting the service for the government still holds the same standard?
That is why AT&T doesn't want knowledge of their Hemisphere program exposed.
Sorta like that cellphone tower emulator developed by Harris.