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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Unknown Tech Company Defies FBI In Mystery
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Wed Mar 14 16:27:19 2012
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:09:45 -0700
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Unknown Tech Company Defies FBI In Mystery Surveillance Case
http://j.mp/wXEwCn (Wired)
"But this time, the company that received the request pushed back. It
told the agency that it wanted to tell its customer that he or she was
being targeted, which would give the customer a chance to fight the
request in court, as a group of Twitter users did last year when the
Justice Department sought their records under a different kind of
request. The minor defiance in this latest case was enough to land the
NSL request in a federal court docket last Friday, where the
government filed a request for a court order to force the company to
adhere to the gag order."
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As far as I'm concerned, these "secret" information demands, where the
target is not informed and so cannot fight back legally, are in all
but a tiny percentage of cases inappropriate in this or any other
country that values the rule of law.
--Lauren--
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