Verizon Says U.S. Government Data Requests Top 320,000
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Verizon Communications Inc., publishing its first annual report on law-enforcement requests for customer information, said inquiries from U.S. federal, state and local authorities topped 320,000 last year.
Of the requests for customer data, more than 164,000 were subpoenas and almost 71,000 were court orders, New York-based Verizon said in the report. Most of the inquiries pertained to consumers, rather than corporate customers. The total climbed from 2012, the company said, without providing a specific figure for that year.