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DOJ Demands Info on 1.3M Visitors to Protest-Organizing Website

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 15 2017, @09:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-a-little-info-please dept.

AnonTechie writes:

A month ago, the Department of Justice served a warrant (PDF) to Dreamhost regarding one of its clients. This is routine for law enforcement to make such requests, the website hosting service said in a blog post -- except the page in question, disruptj20.org, had helped organize protests of Trump's inauguration. And the DOJ is demanding personal info and 1.3 million IP addresses of visitors to the site.

[...] After questioning the warrant's extreme volume of info requested, the DOJ fired back with a motion (PDF) asking the DC Superior Court to compel the host to comply. Dreamhost's counsel filed legal arguments in opposition (PDF), and will attend a court hearing about the matter in Washington, DC on August 18th.

It's not the first time authorities have tried to pry information from internet companies on users that attended anti-Trump protests.

Source: Engadget

Additional Coverage at The Guardian and DreamHost

Related: Facebook Appeal

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:12AM (#554200)

    Exactly who was Rosa Parks being violent toward or intimidating?

    He gave the textbook definition of terrorism, and Antifa absolutely fits the definition of a terrorist organization.

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