New law on FBI and credit records

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

>Posted-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 09:17:28 -0400
>Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 09:17:28 -0400
>To: kaplan@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu
>From: ssteele@eff.org
>Subject: New law on FBI and credit records
>Cc: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu, interesting-people@eff.org,
>        eff-board@eff.org, eff-staff@eff.org, efarber@iiic.ethz.ch
>
>Hi Peter.
>Your post in alt.privacy was forwarded to me.  I don't know of any
>legislation that will permit the FBI to obtain your credit report without a
>search warrant.  While it is possible that such legislation exists, what
>you describe from the NY Times article sounds an awful lot like a proposed
>amendment to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) introduced
>this year that would allow the FBI access to *telephone calling data* with
>a letter (rather than a search warrant) certifying that the person was
>being investigated for engaging in terrorism or international espionage, or
>cohorting with such folks.  The telephone calling data includes the names
>and telephone numbers of all calls made from the phone number being
>investigated, as well as the duration of the calls.  While this in itself
>may be cause for alarm, it is not the same as FBI access to credit
>reporting information.
>Shari
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>Shari Steele
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>Electronic Frontier Foundation
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