Nicholas Merrill is now at liberty to publically discuss the scope of FBI requirements under the 2004 national security letter directed at his organization, Calyx Internet Access, after the government agency failed to file an appeal, The New York Times reports. The FBI allegedly required Merrill to “turn over all physical mail addresses, email addresses and Internet Protocol addresses associated with one customer’s account, as well as telephone and billing records and anything else considered to be an ‘electronic communications transactional record,’’ the report states, adding that “the content of communications between the customer and others should not be handed over.” Meanwhile, Ars Technica reports on the potential of the U.S. Constitution’s Third Amendment to protect citizens against government-borne privacy infringements.
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