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So, the FBI is asking for IPs used to comment in two posts whose authors later committed acts of terrorism. Doesn't surprise me, I had thought they would have done this already.


I'm surprised there's an actual search warrant. I would think these websites get so many requests for IPs that there's not some way the websites hand it over without a warrant.


Websites in the US (which doesn't, I believe, include this one) have to follow the Stored Communications Act, which specifically forbids disclosing customer information just because someone asked.


Maybe for the actual communication, but not IP addresses:

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d2ca30a5-542c...




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