Credo Mobile Confirms Fight With Government Over NSL Constitutionality, Says EFF
Credo Mobile confirmed the company was in a "long-running legal battle over the constitutionality of national security letters (NSLs), and published the letters the government sent three years ago," said the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a Wednesday news release. EFF…
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said it has represented the carrier in this matter since 2013 and the case has been combined with two other similar challenges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Credo has been under a gag order until now from being identified in the case, but a District Court in March said the FBI failed to justify the order, EFF said: The government decided to drop its appeal of that order, giving Credo the go-ahead to identify itself. "These letters, and the gag orders that came with them, infringed our free speech rights, blocking us from talking to our members about them or discussing our experience while lawmakers debated NSL reform,” said Credo CEO Ray Morris. “We were proud to fight these NSLs all these years, and now we are proud to publish the letters and take full part in the ensuing debate.” DOJ didn't comment.