The FBI letter was top secret. Fighting it rewrote online privacy law. ✉ Darknet Diaries Ep. 176 NSL

One day Nick got a visit from the FBI demanding he give them data on one of his customers. They asked for it in the form of a National Security Letter or NSL. Something wasn’t right about this letter. It seemed to violate the constitution. So he set out to change the law.

Learn more about Nicks work at [calyxinstitute.org](calyxinstitute.org) and [phreeli.com](phreeli.com).

Check out Cindy’s book Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance.

### Sources

* https://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/11/gagged_for_6_years_nick_merrill
* https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/u-s-nicholas-merrill-v-loretta-e-lynch-14-cv-9763-vm/
* https://clearinghouse.net/case/12966/
* https://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/dec/06/fbi-national-security-letter-gag-order-nick-merrill
* https://www.aclu.org/documents/national-security-letters
* https://www.eff.org/cases/re-matter-2011-national-security-letter
* Cindy’s Book: Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance


### Attribution

Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.

Assembled by Tristan Ledger.

Episode artwork by odibagas.

Mixing by Proximity Sound.

Theme music created by Breakmaster Cylinder. Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp. Or listen to it on Spotify.

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