Külföldi torrent oldalak Reddit Got 55 User Data Requests In 2014, Complied Over Half The Time

"We provide advance notice to affected users unless prohibited by court order."

Who knew that the “front page of the Internet” would be a source of information for law enforcement?

According to a new transparency report released Thursday by reddit, the site has only received a few dozen requests for user data.

As reddit wrote:

In 2014, we received 55 requests for user information (including account registration data, log data, and content uploaded by users) from outside parties. We take all requests for the disclosure of user information seriously. When we receive a request, we make sure it is legitimate and not overbroad, and we provide advance notice to affected users unless prohibited by a court order or where we decide delayed notice is appropriate based on clear criteria described in our privacy policy.

In 58 percent of those 55 requests, reddit gave up some of the data—the report also shows that 53 percent of those requests were American civil subpoenas.

Presumably this included a March 2014 subpoena that Ars previously reported on from the Delaware Attorney General’s office, which sought “all records and information including registered name, e-mail, and IP address" concerning user “un1cornbl00d” for a certain two day period at the end of that month. State authorities wanted this information in an attempt to locate a man and woman who appeared (NSFW) to have sex in public in the town of Newark, Delaware, on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2014.

The company, which is a sister publication of Ars Technica (we are both owned by Condé Nast), also said that it has never complied with any of the five foreign requests where user data was asked for.

Reddit continued:

Many government requests we receive contain demands to withhold notice from users that carry no legal weight. We actively disregard these non-binding demands. Our goal is to give users the information they need to seek legal advice before their records are disclosed. As stated in our privacy policy, we provide advance notice to affected users unless prohibited by a court order or where we decide delayed notice is appropriate based on clear criteria.

Toward the bottom of the report, reddit added a warrant canary: “As of January 29, 2015, reddit has never received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or any other classified request for user information. If we ever receive such a request, we would seek to let the public know it existed.”