EFF urges stronger oversight of DOJ’s digital search of J20 protestor website

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District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Robert Morin ruled today that DreamHost must comply with federal prosecutors' narrowed warrant seeking communications and records about an Inauguration Day protest website: disruptj20.org; but they will have to present the court with a "Minimization plan" that includes the names of all government investigators who will have access to the data and a list of all the methods that they will be using to search the evidence.

This is an important step in ensuring judicial oversight of the government's digital search.

While we are glad to see that the judge is taking steps to oversee the government's "Narrowed." search, EFF has long warned against the problems with the two-step approach of overseizure of digital information.

Because of the vast troves of data that the government has access to in these cases, it risks executing a general search, the very danger that the Fourth Amendment is meant to guard against.

As in other cases involving digital searches, EFF believes the government's access to the data should be limited in advance to ensure that it complies with the Fourth Amendment.

The government could be required to expressly articulate ex ante search protocols.

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