[yqx]

I didn't study law, but as far as I understand, illegal is not the right word here. They (govt) do things for which there is no legal precedence all the time. The court could also have found no problem with these searches. Now that they did take issue with it if the searches would continue then yes, that would be illegal.

[t0ddbonzalez]

"Evidence collected in breach of your constitutional rights" is probably a better way of describing the situation.