ISP Owner Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 12, 2010 @05:47AM from the free-to-move-about-the-prison dept.

Tootech writes "So you wonder what happens when an ISP recieves a a so-called 'national security letter' from the FBI? Well, read this about an ISP owner's fight to not have to turn over everything and the sink to the FBI: 'The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family. He can now identify himself and discuss the case, although he still can't reveal what information the FBI sought. Nicholas Merrill, 37, was president of New York-based Calyx Internet Access when he received a so-called "national security letter" from the FBI in February 2004 demanding records of one of his customers and filed a lawsuit to challenge it.'"

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Re:Troubling by XanC · 2010-08-12 07:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

We give less per capita
If by "we" you mean the Almighty Federal Government (as people with your particular worldview are wont to do), compared to the almighty governments of other countries, maybe.
If you mean "we" as in actual people, compared to actual people elsewhere, I think that's baloney.