FBI client data requests under Patriot Act quietly skyrocket after tech firm resistance

The FBI greatly expanded data sharing requests under the controversial Section 215 of the Patriot Act when tech firms tried to resist the bureau’s better-known National Security Letters. The requests may have blanketed millions of records. Section 215 allows the FBI to require business records and any ‘tangible things’ for an authorized terrorism or clandestine … Continue reading FBI client data requests under Patriot Act quietly skyrocket after tech firm resistance