And This Is Why Gizmodo Doesn’t Collect IP Address Data

Over at Bloomberg , Virginia Postrel writesabout a grand jury subpoena issued to uncloak the identity of anon. commenters at libertarian publishing Reason . Specifically , they wantIP name and address , which can break a person ’s geographic localisation and more .

You canread the whole subpoena ad testificandum here , but this is the primal bit :

essentially , the courtroom want any info they can get on these anonymous commenters , who were express anger over Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht ’s sentencing . Most of the court ’s postulation could turn up garbage , if these commenters act as like the libertarian they are and refused to give their real names or hand over bank info . But it ’s harder to dissemble your IP destination — particularly if Reason ( like many companies with customers ) has been tracking and lay in IP name and address .

Pixwatch2

Reason does n’t have to cut across information processing address , and let ’s hope they did n’t . Here at Gizmodo — indeed , at all the website owned by Gawker Media — it ’s our policy not to log your IP name and address when you call our site or make a scuttlebutt . As long as you expend a burner account , nobody will ever know who you are or where you come from . If you lumber in with Google or Facebook … we still do n’t have your data point , but we ca n’t see to it what those companies do with it .

No one in their right mind would take this inflated venting seriously as threatening Judge Forrest , who back in the fallhad personal selective information publishedon an secret site , along with talk of stealing her identity or call in top to beam SWAT team to her house . The Reason commenters , by contrast , included nothing so specific .

And now these commenters ’ material identities are go to be revealed in motor inn .

Dji Drone