Trump admin loses fight to spy on random journalists’ LinkedIn DMs
摘要
美国上诉法院裁定，司法部不得为调查机密军事情报泄露而要求LinkedIn交出与调查无关的随机记者的通信数据。此前司法部要求LinkedIn提供18个月内的通信记录，涉及多名记者，范围远超相关报道的当事记者。法院认为，记者普遍使用LinkedIn联系消息源，允许此类广泛调取会威胁新闻工作者与机密消息源的正常联系。法院还指出，政府曾获保密令，禁止LinkedIn
The Trump administration’s fight to stop suspected leaks of top-secret military information on LinkedIn can’t sweep in “a vast number of confidential sources” of random journalists “who have no conceivable relationship” to the Department of Justice’s investigation, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The order came after the DOJ asked LinkedIn to turn over 18 months of communications from targeted journalists who collectively published more than 1,000 articles on many different topics over that time period. The request was not limited to journalists involved in a controversial report from a news outlet that Trump said exposed confidential military information in a foreign country. (The outlet is not being named to protect national security secrets.) Instead, the DOJ cast a wide net, requesting extensive LinkedIn data on journalists who had any possible link to the journalists around the time the report was drafted.
The majority of journalists have LinkedIn accounts and publish their contact information to encourage sources to connect on the platform, LinkedIn argued. So allowing that government overreach went beyond harming targeted journalists and threatened to undermine a critical platform where journalists frequently connect with confidential sources, judges ruled. Even more concerning, the Trump administration secured a secrecy order barring LinkedIn from telling anyone about the sweeping request for a year. That left journalists unaware for far too long that their First Amendment rights had been compromised, judges ruled.
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