https://theintercept.com/2015/11/30/scope-of-secretive-fbi-national-security-letters-revealed-by-first-lifted-gag-order/
Fourteen years after the FBI began using national security letters to
unilaterally and quietly demand records from Internet service
providers, telephone companies and financial institutions, one recipient
— former ISP founder Nicholas Merrill — is finally free to talk about
what it’s like to get one.
The FBI issues the letters, known as NSLs, without any judicial review whatsoever. And they come with a gag order.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, around 300,000 NSLs
have been issued since 2001. By 2008, the Justice Department concluded
that the FBI had been abusing its powers with NSLs, even after changing
policies in 2006.
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