Federal prosecutors on Tuesday substantially narrowed the scope of a search warrant seeking information related to a website, www.disruptj20.org, that was used to coordinate protests during Donald Trump’s inauguration. US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website Read moreThe original warrant sought every piece of information possessed by website-hosting company DreamHost related to the site, including the IP addresses of the site’s 1.3m visitors. The revised warrant excludes the IP addresses of visitors as well as unpublished blog posts or other media. “The government has now withdrawn entirely its unlawful and highly problematic request for any data relating to the visitors of the website and any unpublished data subject to the Privacy Protection Act,” DreamHost attorney Raymond Aghaian said by email. In the court filing seeking to modify the search warrant, however, federal prosecutors said they were unaware that DreamHost possessed so much information when they obtained the warrant.

Source: The Guardian August 23, 2017 00:22 UTC