About this episode

Nick discusses his experience with the FBI and the implications of National Security Letters on privacy rights.

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 calyxinstitute.org and phreeli.com . Check out Cindy’s book Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (https://amzn.to/4gXuK2J). Sponsors Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker® . ThreatLocker® is a Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform that strengthens your infrastructure from the ground up. With ThreatLocker® Allowlisting and Ringfencing™, you gain a more secure approach to blocking exploits of known and unknown vulnerabilities. ThreatLocker® provides Zero Trust control at the kernel level that enables you to allow everything you need and block everything else, including ransomware! Learn more at www.threatlocker.com . Support for this episode comes from NetSuite . NetSuite gives you visibility and control of your financials, planning, budgeting, and of course - inventory - so you can manage risk, get reliable forecasts, and improve margins…

People in this episode

Host: Jack Rhysider

Guest: Nick

Topics covered

• National Security Letter
• FBI
• data privacy
• constitutional rights
• digital surveillance
• law change

Keywords

• NSL
• FBI
• data request
• privacy
• law
• surveillance
• ThreatLocker
• NetSuite

Sponsors

ThreatLocker®, NetSuite

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI, calyxinstitute.org, phreeli.com

Books & works: Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

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