Verizon received 148,903 law enforcement requests for customer...
Verizon received 148,903 law enforcement requests for customer data in the first half of 2014, the company said in a transparency report (http://vz.to/1qfvDkC). Roughly half of those requests were subpoenas from law enforcement, which sought info on 132,499 “information points,”…
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like a phone number, which are used to identify a customer. Verizon in January became the first telco to issue such a transparency report (CD Jan 23 p5). The numbers released Tuesday show the company has received requests at roughly the same rate it did in 2013, when it received 321,545 total law enforcement requests and 164,184 subpoenas over the full year. Similarly, the telco received national security letters at roughly the same rate over the first half of 2014: Between 0 and 999 letters requesting information on between 2,000 and 2,999 “selectors” to identify Verizon customers. The company was not able to release the number of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders for the first half of 2014, because the government imposes a six-month delay on reporting that data, Verizon said. In the second half of 2013, the company received between 0 and 999 FISA orders for content -- recordings of phone calls or stored content, Verizon said. It also received between 0 and 999 FISA orders for non-content -- call records, but not the calls themselves -- Verizon said. It said the content requests targeted between 3,000 and 3,999 customers and the non-content requests targeted between 0 and 999 customers.