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National Security Letter Withdrawn

The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, has successfully defended against a demand by the FBI to reveal information about a user -- as reported yesterday by the Associated Press in the New York Times. Following receipt of the national security letter in November, 2007, the library sued alleging that the letters violated free speech since they prohibit recipients from talking to anyone else about them. The FBI agreed to withdraw the letter and to make the case public.

The Internet Archive was launched in 1996 in collaboration with the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, and other public organization to provide a permanent record of Web pages making available to users billions of archived Internet pages that may no longer be available for viewing.

According to Melissa Goodman of the ACLU, of the nearly 200,000 letters sent by the FBI, only three have been challenged in court. The FBI lost all three of these challenges -- one is under appeal.

Full post as published by V.U.Lawcity - The Valpo Law Blawg on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).