Sentences with phrase «national security letters»

The number of national security letters received by the company — secret warrant - like requests for information made by the FBI in national security matters — appears to have held relatively steady.

The Internet Archive published a formerly secret national security letter (NSL) today that includes misinformation about how to contest the accompanying gag order that demanded total secrecy about the request.

The Federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that gag orders issued with warrant - like national security letters do not violate the First Amendment.

It details the FBI's «exponentially growing practice» of using so - called national security letters to review the telephone calls, correspondence and financial lives of ordinary Americans.

Shortly after my post earlier today about national security letters, the Electronic Frontier Foundation issued an alert, «Last Chance to Support PATRIOT Reform — Call Congress Now!»

urging anyone concerned about the PATRIOT Act and national security letters in particular to contact their senators and represenatives today.

See also Ambrogi's update on the latest action by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, «EFF issues alert on national security letters.»

In the last example, you might also want a buffer between a possible national security letter, subpoena, or court order and your client's information.

On the advice of the American Civil Liberties Union, his employer went to court to challenge the constitutionality of the subpoena, the provisions of the Patriot Act that broadened the use of national security letters after Sept. 11, 2001, and the order permanently forbidding discussion of the F.B.I.'s demand.

Under revised law national security letters can't be used to obtain records «so long as the library is not operating as an «electronic communication service,» a term defined as «any service which provides to users thereof the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communications.»

However, if law enforcement were to send a warrant (or a secret national security letter) to Microsoft, Microsoft would be forced to give the government your recovery key.

National security letters are a type of government subpoena for communications data sent to service providers.

The microblogging platform also announced the FBI had informed the company it was no longer under a «gag order» that prevented the disclosure of five cases involving «national security letters» — special requests from the US law enforcement agency in national security cases.

Multiple librarians have pushed back against «national security letters» that would do just that in the name of public safety — a dangerous order to resist, since those letters include a gag order.

But in 2005, when the FBI served a national security letter to Connecticut's Library Connection demanding reading records and hard drives, the librarians resisted with such force that the government capitulated.

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the Patriot Act, people were detained for reading foreign - language pages on public internet sites, or criticizing then - president Bush in chat rooms, or reporting the receipt of a National Security letter to their library's attorney, as happened to four Connecticut librarians, who were arrested for discussing a National Security letter with their counsel.

A provision of the authorization bill would allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use national security letters, which do not require a warrant, to compel companies such as Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook to hand over certain Internet records.

The article reports that the FBI now issues more than 30,000 national security letters a year — and a single letter can encompass records relating to any number of individuals.

One particular investigative tool, the National Security Letter (NSL), is illustrative.

He directed Holder to reform the use of national security letters — called NSLs — so they don't remain secret indefinitely.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in New York said the FBI's use of secret «national security letters» to demand such data violates the First Amendment and constitutional provisions on the separation of powers, because the FBI can impose indefinite gag orders on the companies and the courts have little opportunity to review the letters.

[a] Connecticut librarian... was visited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last year and presented with what is known as a national security letter demanding patron records.

Though some 30,000 national security letters are issued a year without arousing public protest, the librarian was reluctant to comply because of professional ethics aimed at keeping library records confidential.

At the same time, national security letters and other legal trappings of the post 9/11 era mean it's become easier for a wide variety of government and law enforcement agencies to obtain phone records without a warrant.

Between January and the end of June Apple received somewhere between 13,250 and 13,499 national security requests from the U.S. government, including orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court and national security letters, Apple revealed this week in its latest transparency report.

(A national security letter is a secret order that may contain a «nondisclosure» requirement, preventing the person who received the national security letter from ever talking about it for the rest of their life under threat of criminal prosecution.)

Under § 2703, an administrative subpoena, a National Security Letter («NSL»), can be served on a company to compel it to disclose basic subscriber information.

That uploaded data could be gotten from their servers with a warrant or national security letter.

If Apple or Google received a warrant — or some sort of secret «national security letter» — they wouldn't be able to decrypt the files even if they wanted to.