Google discloses stats about government requests via FISA / National Security Letters: https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/us-national-...

I was in one of these published NSLs issued by FBI a few years ago. I was notified by Google after the nondisclosure period.

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edm0nd 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What did you get the NSL for?

Did it result in you being raided?

Were you ever indicted or convicted of anything?

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cvhc 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I dunno. Maybe because I used to do research at a Chinese lab when I was a student? That was my impression when I was once questioned for many hours by DHS at the airport. It's impossible to get an answer. They are granted broad legal authority to screen foreign nationals.

No indictment. Nothing physical. But a lot of headaches like delays in visa/immigrant application :shrug:

	▲	sneak 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It was obviously such a credible threat that they couldn’t get a judge to sign a real warrant and had to do a warrantless fishing expedition.

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garyfirestorm 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

care to explain how you got added to it? what happened then? did you fight it?

	▲	cvhc 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		See the other comment. > did you fight it? I talked to university lawyers (and LLMs) regarding another issue with DHS. For the sake of national security, they have the legal authority. There isn't much I can do. Unless I can prove they discriminated against me due to my race, national origin, etc. -- which may be the case but how can I prove that. I requested FOIA from DOS/DHS. What I got was basically no more than the original applications I submitted.