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title: "Dates from 2016, but I wasn't aware this had happened: "The American…"
date: 2018-04-27
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# Dates from 2016, but I wasn't aware this had happened: "The American…

*April 27, 2018 · Facebook*

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[https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/fbi-demands-signal-user-data-but-theres-not-much-to-hand-over/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/fbi-demands-signal-user-data-but-theres-not-much-to-hand-over/){target="_blank"}
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Dates from 2016, but I wasn\'t aware this had happened:\
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\"The American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday that Open Whisper Systems (OWS), the company behind popular encrypted messaging app Signal, was subpoenaed earlier this year by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia to hand over a slew of information---\"subscriber name, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, method of payment\"---on two of its users.\
Further, OWS was prevented for at least several months from publicly disclosing that it had received such an order until the ACLU successfully challenged it.\
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While details of the case remain sealed, the ACLU published a number of partially redacted court documents, including its initial response to the FBI.\"\
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[https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/fbi-demands-signal-user-data-but-theres-not-much-to-hand-over/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/fbi-demands-signal-user-data-but-theres-not-much-to-hand-over/){target="_blank"}
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