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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday August 26 2017, @02:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the baby-steps dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

After the US Department of Justice demanded from DreamHost data that could identify visitors of anti-Trump website Disruptj20.org and the web host refused to comply with such an unreasonably broad request for data, the DOJ narrowed the scope of its demand by excluding unpublished media and HTTP access and error logs from it.

On Thursday, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Robert Morin ruled that DreamHost must comply with the narrowed warrant, but has further limited the government's access to the asked-for data, in order to limit exposure of sensitive user information.

He has asked the federal prosecutors to present a list of investigators who will have access to the data and list of methods they will be using to go through it to find information pertinent to their investigation. The investigation aims to find out who's responsible for property damage in downtown Washington during the Inauguration Day protests.

"The production of evidence from this trove of data will be overseen by the court. The DOJ is not permitted to perform this search in a bubble. It is, in fact, now required to make its case with the court to justify why they believe information acquired is or is not responsive to (aka: 'covered by') the warrant," DreamHost explained.

Good. It's about time the judiciary started saying no to executive overreach.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/08/25/judge-limits-dojs-search-anti-trump-website-data/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @03:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @03:49PM (#559471)

    Yep, TMB's ideals are strictly limited by the group in question. It is sad to see the partisan divide get to that point, but it sure as hell shows how we might slip down into full blown Nazi mode. I would have said fascism but we're already there.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Saturday August 26 2017, @05:51PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 26 2017, @05:51PM (#559512) Journal

    We've been a fascist state, in Mussolini's definition, since before Mussolini was born. The government has been working hand-in-glove with the major companies since before the TransContinental Railroad was built. For something just a bit later, check out the history of SP. (I've no reason to think the other major companies didn't get similar benefits, but I'm less sure.) For that matter the Civil War was largely over which major companies should get the most support. The South wanted support for "King Cotton" and the North for the manufacturing industries.

    We tend to use fascist as a term of abuse in the same way we use terrorist...i.e., by ignoring that we're doing the same thing, possibly more effectively.

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