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posted by martyb on Sunday October 15 2017, @07:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-wants-a-fat-warrant? dept.

A federal judge has approved a warrant for web hosting company DreamHost's records for DisruptJ20.org, a site that was used to plan anti-Trump protests on Inauguration Day. However, the scope of the warrant has been significantly narrowed:

"[W]hile the government has the right to execute its Warrant," D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin wrote in his order, "it does not have the right to rummage through the information contained on DreamHost's website and discover the identity of, or access communications by, individuals not participating in alleged criminal activity, particularly those persons who were engaging in protected First Amendment activities."

The government sought the warrant as it gathers evidence for its cases against nearly 200 people charged with rioting on Jan. 20.

The judge's new order instructs DreamHost to redact identifying information of "innocent persons" who visited the website before providing the records to the government. It also dictates a protocol for incorporating procedural safeguards to comply with "First Amendment and Fourth Amendment considerations." Among other stipulations, the government must submit to the court its plan for permanently deleting from its possession all information not within the scope of the warrant.

DreamHost considered the judge's ruling a significant victory. "The new order is a far cry from the original warrant we received in July," DreamHost General Counsel Christopher Ghazarian wrote in a statement to NPR. "Absent a finding by the Court that probable cause of criminal activity exists, the government will not be able to uncover the identities of these users. There are also quite a few modifications that further reduce the government's ability to review unrelated data. This is another huge win not just for DreamHost, but for internet users around the world."

Also at Reason, The Register, Engadget, and Infosecurity Magazine.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 15 2017, @10:18PM (4 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 15 2017, @10:18PM (#582777) Homepage

    Go Trump! Go Trump! Go Trump!

    p.s. Can you go after the Jews next?

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:36PM (3 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:36PM (#582804) Homepage Journal

    I have gone after the Jews. Believe me, folks, I have. Number one, I’m the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist person. In fact, we did very well relative to other people running as a Republican. I'm very pro-Jewish. I brought in Ivanka and Jared, Rod Rosenstein, and Jason Greenblatt. I got rid of Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka. And I'm very pro-Israel. I'm pulling out of the incompetently drawn Iran deal. I visited Israel after my trip to the Middle East. Prime Minister Netanyahu loves me. He's been a great, great friend. What more do you want?

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:57PM (1 child)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:57PM (#582815) Homepage

      Oh come on, regarding Steve Bannon, you're just doing the ol' Mutt-and-Jeff style misdirection. Everybody with a functioning hindbrain knows that you two are still butt-buddies. One minute he says that you have a 30% chance of ending your first term, the next he says that you will win in 2020 with 400 electoral votes. Know how that will happen?

      You will declassify documents Americans want to read, that's how.

      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 16 2017, @12:06AM

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday October 16 2017, @12:06AM (#582824) Journal

        Wasn't October the deadline for some JFK docs to get released or not?

        Oh, CNN [cnn.com] has that information. The deadline is October 26th. I think I will sub a story on it regardless if docs get released or not.

        If Trump keeps them classified, what then? Were there some other documents you were looking for? Will the deep state even give Trump the UFO docs?

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    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 16 2017, @12:03AM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday October 16 2017, @12:03AM (#582821) Journal

      I brought in Ivanka and Jared

      *Audible snickering*

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