FBI Continues To Demand Far More Info Than It's Supposed To With Its National Security Letters

Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 31 January 2017
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If the DOJ isn't going to do anything about this, the FBI will continue to issue thousands of letters a year asking for more than it should and hoping recipients aren't aware they don't have to hand all of this information over. It's also hoping recipients don't know they're allowed to challenge the accompanying gag orders -- or at least it was until the Internet Archive (which isn't the proper target for NSLs to begin with) publicly pointed out the FBI was still using outdated boilerplate in its demand letters.

Agencies always try to get everything they can and rely on the name they have.