Discussion of how it was done here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kuqvs3/all_par...
Edit: this Reddit post appears to be inaccurate. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725268
Edit: this Reddit post appears to be inaccurate. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725268
There's an opportunity to introduce reasonable doubt when a third-party is in possession of the data in-between, but it's likely this sort of data isn't going to be the only evidence in any resulting prosecutions. It's far more likely to be probable cause for warrants.
> But, in some ways, there’s really no such thing as an “illegal” search by a private citizen, at least in the sense that police searches can be illegal: Regardless of issues like lack of probable cause, evidence found by private citizens acting on their own is usually admissible in court. That’s true even if the private citizen committed a crime like trespass or theft to accomplish the search.