Date: Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [#2438433]: [automattic] Illegal tampering with my blog
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Hello Word Press,
Thank you for your email. I take the privacy of user accounts seriously as well. I also take the altering of blog material, destruction of evidence, and attempts to illegally change my password and shut down my account (Tax Court Petition) seriously. I believe the individual who engaged in this illegal conduct is a Bay Area lawyer known as Stephen Gianelli. He has sent me the photograph he placed on the blog (when he or someone illegally opened a Gravatar account in my name) countless times. The words and false accusations are his. Gianelli has now written me that even if it was him, he is protected because he uses TOR. I will submit your email to Tax Court. I intend to ask Tax Court to refer this matter to federal law enforcement or issue a subpoena for the IP information re. every visit to this blog. The blog was private but has had hundreds of visits. The parties authorized to view the blog were Tax Court and IRS Chief Trial Counsel's office. I was the only party authorized to change the evidence or add information.
Thank you for your email. I take the privacy of user accounts seriously as well. I also take the altering of blog material, destruction of evidence, and attempts to illegally change my password and shut down my account (Tax Court Petition) seriously. I believe the individual who engaged in this illegal conduct is a Bay Area lawyer known as Stephen Gianelli. He has sent me the photograph he placed on the blog (when he or someone illegally opened a Gravatar account in my name) countless times. The words and false accusations are his. Gianelli has now written me that even if it was him, he is protected because he uses TOR. I will submit your email to Tax Court. I intend to ask Tax Court to refer this matter to federal law enforcement or issue a subpoena for the IP information re. every visit to this blog. The blog was private but has had hundreds of visits. The parties authorized to view the blog were Tax Court and IRS Chief Trial Counsel's office. I was the only party authorized to change the evidence or add information.
Thank you again.
All the best,
Kelley Lynch
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Denise - WordPress wrote:
We (Automattic) take the protection of our users' private data very seriously. We consider items of information such as a user’s email address or IP address to be private information.
Automattic’s headquarters are in San Francisco, California. It is our policy to turn over private information only upon receipt of either (1) an order, specifically naming Automattic as a party, that has been validly issued by a United States court or (2) a subpoena that complies with Rule 45 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and/or the California Discovery Act.
For legal requests from outside the United States, we ask that the request be served via a United States court or enforcement agency under the procedures of an applicable mutual assistance legal treaty.
You can read more about our legal guidelines here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/disputes/legal-guidelines/
All orders or subpoenas should be sent to court-orders@wordpress.com. Please note that per our policies, we will forward any legal process we receive to our users, and give them an opportunity to challenge disclosure of their personal information before we release it. We also charge an administrative fee of USD $125/hour for compliance with validly issued and served civil subpoenas and reserve the right to review and object to any legal process we receive.
Denise | Happiness Engineer | WordPress.com