Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled unconstitutional the provision of the Patriot Act known as the National Security Letters (NSLs), which allows the FBI to secretly require businesses, mainly telephone companies, Internet service providers and financial institutions, to hand over the personal information of their customers, without court authorisation. The provision contains a gag order imposing silence on the recipients of the letters, forbidding them to tell the customers or anyone else what they are doing.
Read article by Tamam Ahmed Jama at: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/865/in2.htm
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