EFF Staff Attorney Andrew Crocker will urge an appeals court to find that the FBI violates the First Amendment when it unilaterally gags recipients of national security letters (NSLs) and the law should be found unconstitutional. These letters allow the FBI to secretly demand data about American citizens' private communications and Internet activity from communications service providers without any meaningful oversight or prior judicial review. Recipients of NSLs are also subject to a gag order that forbids them from revealing the letters' existence to individuals or the public.

EFF is representing two communications service providers - CREDO Mobile and Cloudflare - that were restrained from speaking about the NSLs they received for years. The gag orders even barred them from contributing to the debate about government use of NSLs when Congress considered changes to the statute in 2015.

On March 20, the FBI finally conceded that EFF could reveal that these two companies were fighting a total of five NSLs.

Join EFF in the fight to bring judicial oversight to every NSL case.

WHEN:
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 1:30 pm

WHERE:
Courtroom 3, 3rd Floor Room 307
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse
95 Seventh Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

MORE INFORMATION:
Official Press Release

SPECIAL NOTES:
Photo ID is required for entry; please allow at least 15 minutes for security screening. Courtroom space is limited and may reach capacity. EFF urges attendees to dress in business attire and to observe respectful courtroom decorum.