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| DATE | 2017-08-15 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Surveillance State and another reason to have
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http://www.businessinsider.com/dreamhost-ip-address-justice-department-warrant-trump-inauguration-2017-8?r=UK&IR=T
The Justice Department demanded over a million IP addresses from an
anti-Trump website and a web-hosting company is fighting it
David Choi
Aug. 14, 2017, 11:23 PM 4,379
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trump inauguration protest Police and demonstrators clash in downtown
Washington after a limo was set on fire following the inauguration of
President Donald Trump, January 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Spencer
Platt/Getty Images
A web-hosting and domain registration company is fighting a Justice
Department warrant for records from a website that helped organize
protests against President Donald Trump's inauguration.
According to DreamHost, the Justice Department has filed a motion to
compel the company to release 1.3 million visitors' IP addresses from
disruptj20.org, a website belonging to a group of activists "building
the framework needed for mass protests to shut down the inauguration of
Donald Trump."
In addition to visitor logs, the Justice Department has demanded contact
information, emails, and photos, DreamHost said in a blog post.
As DreamHost noted, the Justice Depcartment's request raises alarms
because the information could potentially be used to identify people who
were exercising their Constitutional right of free speech to protest Trump.
"That should be enough to set alarm bells off in anyone's mind," the
web-hosting company said on its blog. "This is, in our opinion, a strong
example of investigatory overreach and a clear abuse of government
authority."
The Justice Department's warrant argues that officials could seize all
information relating to violations of Washington D.C.'s code that
stemmed from the riots that ensued during the day of Trump's
inauguration, according to The Hill. More than 200 people had been
indicted on felony rioting charges in connection to the riots in
downtown D.C., CNN reported.
The Justice Department has since called DreamHost's reluctance to
surrender its records "misguided" and that it lacked sufficient basis.
The agency also argued that DreamHost's concern for users' privacy
"lacks merit."
"Internet users have a reasonable expectation that they will not get
swept up in criminal investigations simply by exercising their right to
political speech against the government," DreamHost wrote. "We intend to
take whatever steps are necessary to support and shield these users from
what is, in our view, a very unfocused search and an unlawful request
for their personal information."
A court hearing between DreamHost's counsel and the Justice Department
is set for August 18 in D.C.
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