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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by diafygi on Friday December 14, 2018 @10:21AM (#18681385)
National Security Letters (NSLs) are the things that every time they have been challenged in court the FBI drops the request, right? Since they don't want to test the constitutionality of them?

Seems like the University of Pittsburgh didn't call up the EFF and instead capitulated to a likely unconstitutional request.

https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by skywhopper on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:49AM (#18682202)
In 2007 I don't think it was nearly as clear that challenging them was an option. But I'm also sure that similar things go on all the time and we just don't learn about it.
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