{"id":618,"date":"2017-08-15T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=618"},"modified":"2017-08-15T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:45:53","slug":"political-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Political Surveillance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice last month served a search warrant on <em>DreamHost<\/em>, the company that hosts a website used to coordinate inauguration-day protests, asking for the IP addresses of the 1.3 million people who visited the site.\u00a0 <em>DreamHost<\/em>&#8216;s general counsel, who publicly revealed the action yesterday, has called it &#8220;pure prosecutorial overreach &#8230; that anyone should be targeted simply for visiting a website.&#8221; He said the company gave the government &#8220;limited customer information about the owner of the website&#8221; [sic] back in January, but DOJ demanded the broader information in July.\u00a0 Various groups committed to protecting privacy and First Amendment rights have rallied behind <em>DreamHost<\/em>.\u00a0 DOJ has declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>An IP address doesn&#8217;t confirm a user&#8217;s identity, but it is an invaluable investigative tool.\u00a0 If DOJ has a legitimate reason to have that information on persons checking out the website &#8212; even if just out of curiosity &#8212; it hasn&#8217;t said so.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice last month served a search warrant on DreamHost, the company that hosts a website used to coordinate inauguration-day protests, asking for the IP addresses of the 1.3 million people who visited the site.\u00a0 DreamHost&#8216;s general &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=618\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}