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Court Grants Feds Warrantless Access to Utility Records

Utilities must hand over customer records -- which include credit card numbers, phone numbers and power consumption data -- to the authorities without court warrants if drug agents believe they are "relevant" to an investigation, a federal appeals court says. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 allows the authorities to make demands for that data in the form of an administrative subpoena, with no judicial oversight whatsoever, the court said. ...

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Published By: Wired - Wednesday, 8 August, 2012