AT&T Received 137,600 Government Demands for Customer Information in 1st Half 2016
AT&T received more than 137,600 demands for customer information from federal, state and local criminal and civil government agencies in the first half of 2016, nearly 9,500 less than in the first half of 2015, the company said in a…
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transparency report this week. About 103,000 of the 2016 requests were subpoenas, about 16,000 court orders and 18,500 were search warrants or probable cause court orders. AT&T said it rejected or challenged nearly 3,000 demands and provided partial or no information on more than 29,000. The company provided nearly 37,000 "location demands" and almost 61,000 emergency requests. The carrier said it received a range of 500 to 999 requests for national security letters.