This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition JSON data on gov. petitions should show ip address & user agent of each signer
It has been claimed that some petitions in the past have been distorted by automative bots, or people signing up via multiple temporary email account to sign petitions, by showing more JSON data, like ip address and user agent string of each signer it would help stop fraudulent petitioning.
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