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LEA Requests for Corporate Data Multiply

Robert Block writes in The Wall Street Journal (Sorry -- Registration Required):

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, law enforcement efforts to secure corporate information about clients and suppliers have reached such levels that some companies have had to create special units that do nothing but deal with these demands, a process often called "subpoena management."

Banks, Internet-service providers and other companies that possess large amounts of data on their customers say that police and intelligence agencies have been increasingly coming to them looking for tidbits of information that could help them stop everything from money launderers to pedophiles and terrorists.

posted by Fergie @ 5/22/2006 12:12:00 PM