DOJ backs down from request for IP addresses that visited Trump protest website

DOJ backs down from request for IP addresses that visited Trump protest website

7 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/dreamhost-vs-justice-department-excludes-request-ip-addresses/

The Department of Justice has dropped its request for the IP addresses of visitors to an anti-Trump inauguration protest website. The news is a win for DreamHost, which went public with the situation last week, riling privacy advocates who decried the DOJ request for IP addresses that had visited disruptj20.org as dangerously broad.

In its reply to the court, the Justice Department modified its request to leave out information that it claims it didn’t know DreamHost had to begin with, namely the 1.3 million IP addresses in question. The DOJ asked the court to exclude any text and photographs from unpublished blog posts it hosted: