One day Nick got a visit from the FBI demanding he give them data on one of his customers. They asked for it in the form of a National Security Letter or NSL. Something wasn’t right about this letter. It seemed to violate the constitution. So he set out to change the law. Learn more about Nicks work at https://calyxinstitute.org and https://phreeli.com Check out Cindy’s book Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance - https://amzn.to/4gXuK2J Sources • https://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/11/gagged_for_6_years_nick_merrill • https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/u-s-nicholas-merrill-v-loretta-e-lynch-14-cv-9763-vm/ • https://clearinghouse.net/case/12966/ • https://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/dec/06/fbi-national-security-letter-gag-order-nick-merrill • https://www.aclu.org/documents/national-security-letters • https://www.eff.org/cases/re-matter-2011-national-security-letter • Cindy’s Book: Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance Attribution Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider - https://twitter.com/jackrhysider Assembled by Tristan Ledger Episode artwork by odibagas - https://99designs.com/profiles/2589930 Mixing by Proximity Sound - https://proximitysound.com/ Theme song created by Breakmaster Cylinder - https://www.breakmastercylinder.com/ Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp -https://breakmastercylinder.bandcamp.com/track/darknet-diaries-theme or listen to it on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/3P5CCxXNuUSQldH0GA5ZUy Visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/176/ for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.