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The Fourth Circuit sent the LinkedIn records order back to be narrowed.

In its published November 10 opinion, the Fourth Circuit found the order for journalists’ LinkedIn records substantially overbroad and sent it back for a narrower scope. The ruling did not end the national-security leak investigation or foreclose a narrower records request. The court also modified a separate secrecy order, allowing LinkedIn to tell one vetted attorney for the news outlet that the orders exist, while upholding the denial of LinkedIn’s request to see sealed materials. Ars Technica reported that the records request covered 18 months and journalists who had published more than 1,000 articles. The request concerned LinkedIn records or metadata, not the contents of journalists’ messages.

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