{"id":28806,"date":"2017-08-27T07:58:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T12:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28806"},"modified":"2017-08-27T07:58:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T12:58:17","slug":"infosecurity-doj-subject-to-strict-oversight-in-anti-trump-site-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28806","title":{"rendered":"Infosecurity: DoJ Subject to Strict Oversight in Anti-Trump Site Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infosecurity: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/doj-strict-oversight-trump\/\">DoJ Subject to Strict Oversight in Anti-Trump Site Investigation<\/a> by Phil Muncaster:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Web hosting firm DreamHost has been locked in dispute with the government after it demanded access to data on 1.3 million\u00a0visitors of the disruptj20.org protest site; including IP addresses, contact information, photos and more.<\/p>\n<p>The hoster, helped by rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), argued that such a request was unconstitutional, breaking a First Amendment designed to protect political free speech and a Fourth Amendment which helps guard against dragnet seizure of information.<\/p>\n<p>The DoJ subsequently narrowed its request, claiming it had no interest in the 1.3 million\u00a0IP addresses of visitors to the site, but there remained privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Now DreamHost is claiming victory after chief judge Morin of the Superior Court of Washington DC ruled that the investigation\u00a0would need significant oversight from\u00a0the courts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infosecurity: DoJ Subject to Strict Oversight in Anti-Trump Site Investigation by Phil Muncaster:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28807,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28806\/revisions\/28807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}