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| Kevin Poulsen and Ryan Singel's daily briefing on security, freedom and privacy in the wired and unwired world. ... |
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 --- 79 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired27b/~3/285512479/internet-archiv.html
The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties groups announced Wednesday morning.
On November 26, 2007, the FBI served a controversial National Security Letter on the Internet Archive , asking for records about one of the library's registered users, asking for the user's name, address.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet Archive's lawyers, fought the NSL, challenging its constitutionality in a December 14 complaint (.pdf) to a federal court in San Francisco.
The Patriot Act greatly expanded the reach of NSLs, which are subpoenas for documents such as billing records and telephone records that the FBI can issue in terrorism investigations without a judge's approval. Nearly all NSLs come with gag orders forbidding the recipient from ever speaking of the subpoena, except to a lawyer.
The EFF, joined by the ACLU, challenged the constitutionality of NSLs, saying the gag order violates the First Amendment and that the specific NSL used was illegal since the Internet Archive is a library, not a communications provider.
Though FBI guidelines on using NSLs warned of overusing them, two Congressionally ordered audits revealed that the FBI had issued hundreds of illegal requests for student health records, ... |
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