DOJ walks back demand for information on anti-Trump website

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Subject: DOJ walks back demand for information on anti-Trump website
> Date: August 22, 2017 at 6:20:21 PM EDT
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
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> Justice Department walks back demand for information on anti-Trump website
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> Colin Lecher
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> https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16186474/justice-department-trump-ip-addresses-requests
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> After controversy over a broad search warrant that could have identified visitors to an anti-Trump website, the 
> Justice Department says it’s scaling back a demand for information from hosting service DreamHost.
>
> The Justice Department says it will carve out exceptions to the request
>
> Last week, DreamHost disclosed that it was involved in a legal dispute with the department over access to records on 
> the website “disruptj20.org,” which organized protests tied to Donald Trump’s inauguration. The warrant issued by the 
> department was so broad, DreamHost said, that it was effectively requesting information that could identify lawful 
> protestors — including information on more than 1.3 million IP addresses from visitors to the site. The warrant 
> immediately drew condemnation from some privacy law experts.
>
> In a legal filing today, the Justice Department argues that the warrant was proper, but also says DreamHost has since 
> brought up information that was previously “unknown.” In light of that, it has offered to carve out information 
> demanded in the warrant, specifically pledging to not request information like HTTP logs tied to IP addresses.
>
> The department says it is only looking for information related to criminal activity on the site, and says that “the 
> government is focused on the use of the Website to organize, to plan, and to effect a criminal act — that is, a 
> riot.” Peaceful protestors, the government argues, are not the targets of the warrant.
>
> The filing asks the court to proceed with the new, less burdensome request, which, apart from the carved-out 
> sections, still requests “all records or other information, pertaining to the Account, including all files, 
> databases, and database records stored by DreamHost in relation to that Account.”
>
> It’s unclear if DreamHost will continue to fight the new demand. The company did not immediately respond to a request 
> for comment.




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