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Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk01:16, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Created by GorillaWarfare (talk). Self-nominated at 01:40, 19 October 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.
Overall: good to go, nice work! theleekycauldron (talkcontribs) (they/them) 03:38, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Legality

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I think this section has undue prominence. The views explained in the section are minority views arguing for a pretty major change by both Congress and the Courts as it applies to one subset of reverse search warrants. The section outright says "most judges" have authorized these warrants, without citation. The judges who didn't authorize geofence warrants, as quoted by the linked EFF cite, denied applications in very specific applied circumstances and didn't reach questions broadly applicable to geofence warrants as a general matter. Lastly, there's no discussion of why such warrants are generally authorized in the first place. Overall, a better solution might be to delete the section entirely and instead just summarize: some people don't like reverse search warrants because of privacy or over breadth reasons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:14D:8A00:244:5559:8EDD:B52A:6100 (talk) 02:41, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]