"Feds Demand '1.3 Million IP Addresses' of Visitors to Trump Protest Website," 14 August 2017

Web hoster DreamHost says it has been asked to hand over more than 1.3 million IP addresses on visitors to a site that helped organize anti-Trump protests earlier this year. It published a search warrant Monday signed July 12th, in which a District of Colombia court said DreamHost had to hand over records from disruptj20.org covering "the individuals who participated, planned, organized, or incited the January 20 riot," Trump's inauguration day.

That data appears to include IP addresses, emails and physical addresses of the website owners, as well as similar details on all users of the site, such as information about messages submitted to the page and when they accessed disruptj20.org...

Disruptj20.org, according to its site, was set up to build "the framework needed for mass protests to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump and planning widespread direct actions to make that happen."...

DreamHost said it would fight the order. It's already filed an opposition letter, in which it argued the government had not provided enough particularity on what data it wanted and that the order violated the Fourth Amendment and privacy laws. In that complaint, DreamHost notes that a week after the inauguration, it had already provided registration details for the owners of disruptj20.org. It appears the government is now primarily after information on visitors...