A hypothetical clothing company called GreenDuds prides itself on not using international child labor to manufacture its product
s. However, the company secretly uses child labor and wishes to keep it from the public. Someone at the company knows the company is using child labor and leaks this information to the media. GreenDuds' owners retaliate and hire investigators to locate the source of the leaks to the media through obtaining private telephone records. They tell the investigators to use "whatever means necessary" to get the phone records. GreenDuds potentially committed what crime in hiring the investigators to search through telephone records?
It breaks the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Explanation:
The Fourth Amendment is about the right for privacy and freedom, and it protects the citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures. It protects the individual inside their homes and, most recently, in the use of tecnologies. There is a need to have a search warrant granted by a judge to investigate insides people houses and phones.
The GreenDuds company is acting against the law when it allows the investigators to use "whatever means necessary", since it assumes that they will probably break phone records not by doing a claim to a judge, but by unlawful means, such as hacking or paying someone in the phones company to provide those informations.
