A US court has lifted the curfew imposed on British security researcher Marcus Hutchins and also not require him to be monitored through wearing a GPS bracelet, according to a court document dated 19 October.
Hutchins is in Milwaukee in the US state of Wisconsin awaiting trial on charges that he wrote and helped distribute a banking trojan known as Kronos.
He was arrested was arrested by the FBI in Las Vegas on 2 August after he had boarded a plane to leave the US after attending the annual DEFCON security conference.
Hutchins gained the attention of the world when he stopped the spread of the WannaCry ransomware by accident in May.
{loadposition sam08}The chargesheet against him said he had written and helped distribute Kronos along with an unnamed co-conspirator.
The changes in his conditions were made by US Magistrate Judge William Duffin in the US District Court in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Justice Duffin said that the government objected to the changes in curfew and GPS monitoring not because the community had to be protected from Hutchins, but rather because of a concern that he might not appear when called for trial.
He said that Hutchins' plea that he be allowed to be outside his house after 9pm was made on the grounds that the curfew made it harder for him to establish ties to the community.
Justice Duffin said that the government's argument supporting GPS monitoring was based on the fact that Hutchins had no ties in the US and might otherwise flee back to the US.
He concluded that the conditions of GPS monitoring and curfew should be removed as conditions of Hutchins' pre-trial release.
Hutchins was granted bail on 14 August after a court appearance during which he pleaded not guilty to all six charges levelled against him.