Considering the source of this report, it may be fluffy fake news but you
decide. From:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/08/14/2325254/justice-department-demands-13-million-ip-addresses-related-to-anti-trump-website
Justice Department Demands 1.3 Million IP Addresses Related To Anti-Trump
Website (theverge.com) 133
Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @09:00AM from the
shrouded-in-secrecy dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge:
In a blog post today, online web hosting provider DreamHost disclosed that it
has been involved in a months-long legal battle with the Justice Department
over records on visitors to an anti-Trump website. The dispute focuses on a
Justice Department demand for information on data related to disruptj20.org,
which describes itself as a group of activists "building the framework needed
for mass protests to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump and planning
widespread direct actions to make that happen." DreamHost is taking issue with
a warrant issued by the department for "all files" related to the website,
which DreamHost says would compel them to turn over electronic data like
visitor logs. That would include IP addresses and other information that could
be used to identify anyone who visited the site. "The request from the DOJ
demands that DreamHost hand over 1.3 million visitor IP addresses -- in
addition to contact information, email content, and photos of thousands of
people -- in an effort to determine who simply visited the website," the
company said in its blog post. The warrant, DreamHost argues, would also
require it to hand over any communications that are even tangentially related
to the website.
"In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political
dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and
understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website," the
company said in a legal filing arguing against the warrant. A hearing on the
situation is set for Friday in Washington, DC Superior Court.