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Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

For Merrill, the fight for privacy in telecommunications is a personal one. In 2004, as the owner of an internet service provider, Merrill received a secret FBI order to hand over data on a particular user—and he refused. What ensued was a decade-plus legal battle. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/new-an...

Now, Merrill has launched a phone company: Phreeli (as in “speak freely”) aims to give its users the closest thing possible to anonymity, a goal it achieves by collecting almost no identifiable information about them. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/new-an...