Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies

coderman coderman at protonmail.com
Sat Sep 21 08:49:41 PDT 2019


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On Saturday, September 21, 2019 4:08 AM, Punk <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:
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> you too link idiotic propaganda? Dude. Everything is accessed by the americunt govcorp at will.


the informative aspect is the utter failing of "oversight" of this privilege; even NYT is calling bullshit.

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According to the new documents, the F.B.I. evaluated 11,874 orders between early 2016, when the rules went into effect, and September 2017, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, requested the information.
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The documents obtained through the lawsuit include the number of orders reviewed, as well as redacted copies of 751 letters from the F.B.I. informing companies and organizations their gag orders had been lifted. These so-called termination letters do not reveal the contents of the original national security letters, but indicate which entities received them.

Because so few gag orders have been reviewed and rescinded, it isn’t possible to say whether the companies that received the most termination letters also received the most national security letters. But given the overall secrecy around the program, the termination letters offer a rare glimpse into these subpoenas.

Equifax, Experian and AT&T received the most termination letters: more than 50 each. TransUnion, T-Mobile and Verizon each received more than 40. Yahoo, Google and Microsoft got more than 20 apiece. Over 60 companies received just one....

Tech companies have disclosed more information about the letters they received than the major phone providers, which included general information about them in transparency reports...

“That’s the problem with the Freedom Act: It procedurally pretended to solve the problem,” he said. “But the whole structure of this involves presumption in favor of the government for perpetual sealing.”
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