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Secret FISA court demanded data on 35,000 AT&T customers
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/18/secret-fisa-court-demanded-data-on-35000-att-customers/Secret FISA court demanded data on 35,000 AT&T customers
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 13:44 EST
AT&T said Tuesday that a secretive US court ordered data turned over from more than 35,000 customers in six months as the telecom giant released its first “transparency report.”
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The transparency report, covering the first six months of 2013, said AT&T received between zero and 999 requests for customer content under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act affecting between 35,000 and 35,999 accounts.
Under a separate listing, it said “non-content” data, which could be merely the user’s identity, affected between zero and 999 accounts.
The company also received between 2,000 and 2,999 “national security letters” — which are generally FBI requests in terrorism investigations without a court order — affecting between 4,000 and 4,999 accounts.