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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
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @03:39PM
The affadavit for this warrant is sealed. There has to be a justifiable and significant reason for that. It's highly likely that they are intentionally aiming to avoid naming exactly who is being targeted. There are countless viable and fair reasons for this particularly since this is going to be a hierarchical conspiracy case. Informants could be exposed, individuals with the organization could be put at risk (by those above them), etc.