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



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

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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.  

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