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

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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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