[privacy] Verizon Says It Turned Over Data Without Court Orders

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Washington Post.

[snip]

Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telecom company, told
congressional investigators that it has provided customers' telephone
records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders
hundreds of times since 2005.

The company said it does not determine the requests' legality or necessity
because to do so would slow efforts to save lives in criminal
investigations.

In an Oct. 12 letter replying to Democratic lawmakers, Verizon offered a
rare glimpse into the way telecommunications companies cooperate with
government requests for information on U.S. citizens.

Verizon also disclosed that the FBI, using administrative subpoenas, sought
information identifying not just a person making a call, but all the people
that customer called, as well as the people those people called. Verizon
does not keep data on this "two-generation community of interest" for
customers, but the request highlights the broad reach of the government's
quest for data.

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More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/15/AR200710150
1857.html

- - ferg

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