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IP: In the Name of Homeland Security, Telecom Firms Are Deluged With Subpoenas
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:13:21 -0400
In the Name of Homeland Security, Telecom Firms Are Deluged With Subpoenas By MILES BENSON c.2002 Newhouse News Service \ WASHINGTON -- Operating under new powers to combat terrorism, law enforcement agencies are making unprecedented demands on the telecommunications industry to provide information on subscribers, company attorneys say. These companies and Internet service providers face an escalating barrage of subpoenas for subscriber lists, personal credit reports, financial information, routing patterns that reveal individual computer use, even customer photographs. Behind the rising pressure for the fullest use of new technology and surveillance is homeland security. As police and intelligence agencies seek to deter future terrorist threats, the government is testing the limits of the expanded authority Congress provided when it passed the Patriot Act with broad bipartisan support in October. <snip> http://www.newhouse.com/archive/story1a041002.html For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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