FBI needs no warrant to see your browsing history, reveals @nickcalyx
Nicholas Merrill, who runs a small ISP and hosting company, was instructed by the FBI to give up all kinds of personal information about one of his customers. He’s since been embroiled in an 11-year battle to fully reveal the so-called National Security Letter (NSL).
The case has just ended in complete victory for Merrill, and total legal humiliation for the FBI. Not only is the gag order now totally lifted, but the entire, un-redacted contents of the NSL are now in the public domain.
Notably, the judge in the case ruled that the FBI’s claims that certain parts of the NSL should be secret were “absurd.” Some observers are even saying the FBI’s actions were an abuse of the law.
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