IP: In the Name of Homeland Security, Telecom Firms Are Deluged With Subpoenas

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

In the Name of Homeland Security, Telecom Firms Are Deluged With Subpoenas

By MILES BENSON

c.2002 Newhouse News Service

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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.

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http://www.newhouse.com/archive/story1a041002.html


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