Acting under a Department of Homeland Security contract, private cybersecurity vendor ZeroFox tried to dismantle a site exposing the identities and contact information of federal personnel. The host declined to remove the breach-derived files, citing the public's right to hold state officials accountable. However, domain registrar CentralNic intervened by putting the site on hold, forcing the platform to migrate to an alternative address.
Key points
Federal authorities are relying on automated artificial intelligence tools to identify an…: Federal authorities are relying on automated artificial intelligence tools to identify and purge leaked workforce directories online.
Whistleblowers and internal agency personnel fear the mitigation program could eventually…: Whistleblowers and internal agency personnel fear the mitigation program could eventually be turned against internal government critics.
The targeted accountability database circumvented the registrar shutdown by relocating it…: The targeted accountability database circumvented the registrar shutdown by relocating its directory to a different active domain.
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We receive takedown notices regularly. They come from individuals, lawyers, companies, and governments. This post is part of a series where we document how we handle them, both the routine cases and those that reveal something worth discussing publicly.
This request, to take down icepi.cx (now online again at http://icepicx.is/ ) arrived from a company we have no relationship with, acting for a government agency in a country where we do not operate.
We declined the request.
What happened
The notice describes a doxxing campaign. That is not what the site is.
Doxxing publishes private details about private people so that others can find them at home. Icepick publishes work identities of government employees. Who they work for. What their role is. How they can be reached in that role. The information describes people in the exercise of public authority, not in their private lives. Federal officers carrying out an enforcement programme are not private individuals while they are carrying it out. The public has a legitimate interest in knowing who is doing that work, under whose authority, and in…
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