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Re DOJ walks back demand for information on anti-Trump website BUT issues remain
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:57:39 -0400
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From: Paul Alan Levy <plevy () citizen org> Date: August 23, 2017 at 3:39:51 PM EDT To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>, ip <ip () listbox com> Subject: RE: [IP] DOJ walks back demand for information on anti-Trump website BUT issues remain The limitation of the search warrant so that it no longer seeks IP addresses of web site viewers is welcome, but a significant free speech issue remains: the warrant still seeks to compel production of all emails sent to the web site. The Government’s reply brief is a bit equivocal on the issue – it described such emails as something about which the Government learned for the first time dfrom DreamHost’s briefs, and the brief then suggests that this is information that the government no longer demands – but there has been no corresponding change in the language of the revised search warrant that the Government has asked the judge to approve. And seeking to compel identification of the senders of those emails raises significant free speech issues http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2017/08/trump-administration-backs-off-on-identifying-anonymous-web-site-viewers-but-important-free-speech-i.html Paul Alan Levy Public Citizen Litigation Group 1600 20th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 588-7725 https://www.citizen.org/our-work/litigation/internet-free-speech Twitter: @paulalanlevy Public Citizen Foundation participates in the Combined Federal Campaign with the CFC Code 11168 From: Dave Farber [mailto:farber () gmail com] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 7:08 PM To: ip <ip () listbox com> Subject: [IP] DOJ walks back demand for information on anti-Trump website Begin forwarded message: 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> Justice Department walks back demand for information on anti-Trump website Colin Lecher https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16186474/justice-department-trump-ip-addresses-requests 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. Archives | Modify Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now
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