US Can Bar Disclosure of Subpoena Seeking Session IP Addresses

The US can stop internet service providers from telling users that the government asked them for “registration and session IP addresses with associated port numbers” via a grand jury subpoena, a federal magistrate judge ruled.

The requested data is sufficiently similar to the definition of “basic subscriber information” in the Stored Communications Act that the nondisclosure order is appropriate, Magistrate Judge William B. Porter of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled.

Section 2703 of the SCA regulates what kind of information the government can get from ISPs, what kinds of privacy protections are afforded to ...