Emerald Onion's request about USG Tor usage 20200301 (Federal Communications Commission)

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* Tracking Number: FCC-2020-000328
* Requester Name: Christopher Sheats
* Date Submitted: 03/02/2020
* Request Status: Submitted
* Description:
To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

Copies of internal presentations, reports, studies, memorandum, or proposals created or received by Federal Communications Commission concerning software developed by The Tor Project, Inc., including but not limited to:

- Tor
- Tor Browser
- Tor bridges
- Tor onion sites (v2 or v3, sometimes called "darkweb" or "darknet" sites)
- Tor onion services (v2 or v3, sometimes called "hidden services")
- Tor bandwidth authorities or directory authorities
- Tor pluggable transports (obfs4, meek, ScrambleSuit, etc)
- Tor relays (also known as "routers" or "nodes", sometimes called "guard", "middle", or "exit" relays)

Please limit this request to documents from 2010-January-01 through the date the search for responsive records is conducted.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter.

I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Christopher Sheats

Mr. Sheats,

We have received your FOIA request for "internal presentations, reports, studies, memorandum, or proposals created or received by Federal Communications Commission concerning software developed by The Tor Project, Inc., including but not limited to: - Tor; - Tor Browser; - Tor bridges; - Tor onion sites (v2 or v3, sometimes called "darkweb" or "darknet" sites); - Tor onion services (v2 or v3, sometimes called "hidden services"); - Tor bandwidth authorities or directory authorities; - Tor pluggable transports (obfs4, meek, ScrambleSuit, etc); - Tor relays (also known as "routers" or "nodes", sometimes called "guard", "middle", or "exit" relays). Please limit this request to documents from 2010-January-01 through the date the search for responsive records is conducted." After a preliminary search was conducted, the office handling this request found large amounts of data to review. Please make the search query more specific to reduce the results as the information you seek is unmanageable from a review perspective and would create an undue burden on the agency.

Please let us know how you would like to proceed no later than April 1, 2020. If we do not hear from you by then, we will assume you are no longer interested in this request and will close your request.

Stephanie Kost
FCC FOIA Public Liaison
Federal Communications Commission
Office of Managing Director
Performance Evaluation and Records Management
445 12th St., Washington, DC 20554
Telephone number: 202-418-1379