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Right, but I can imagine a system where you can enter a "subpoena ID" and it can tell you if it's valid and when it was issued, possibly even which jurisdiction

Right, but I can imagine a system where you can enter a "subpoena ID" and it can tell you if it's valid and when it was issued, possibly even which jurisdiction. That should be enough info where folks can verify the validity of their subpoena w/o revealing too much data. Including date of issuance and jurisdiction should help prevent using stale IDs to scare someone. If the subpoena is not sealed, the ID would show all the subpoena info, further narrowing down the ability to replay stale IDs. I'm definitely missing something obvious though because technical solutions are often not a panacea in cases like this

pas 3y ago
no, I don't there's anything missing, other than the usual apathy toward systems reforms in most societies. this would probably work pretty well for these "utility-like big gatekeeper corps" which handle a shitton of subpoena requests, of course it doesn't help if a SWAT team is executing a someone-shout-and-knock-with-that-huge-doorfucker-implement on the wrong house. in many countries there are state-managed online id systems allowing sending documents to legal persons ... which would make it really really trivial. send the warrant to the department executing it and to the department handling these at Verizon. (I wouldn't be surprised to learn that most of the US states already have something like this, but not used like this.) it can be optional/voluntary for natural persons, it can be mandatory for companies above some size, etc.