SAN FRANCISCO AP – A nonprofit digital library has successfully fought an FBI attempt to seize information about one of its users, and is calling on other groups to challenge government agencies attempting to obtain online customer information without a judge’s order.
The FBI presented the San Francisco-based Internet Archive with a national security letter in November asking for a library patron’s records. The group sued the agency a month later, alleging the letter violated free speech rights because they prohibit recipients from talking to anyone else about them.
