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A top secret court order issued in April and disclosed Wednesday
night, is requiring Verizon to hand over all telephone records of
millions of US customers to the National Security Agency; made possible
under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act.
Verizon
is to provide records on an ongoing and daily basis on all telephone
calls in its systems (both within the US and between the US and other
countries), indiscriminately
Under
the terms of the order, the numbers of both parties on a call are
handed over, in addition to their location data, time, unique
identifiers, and duration of calls. The order does not apply to the
content of the communications.
The order was granted to the FBI on April 25th by FISA (the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court), giving the government unlimited authority to obtain data for a specified three month period effective until July 19, 2013.
The
court order specifically prohibits Verizon from disclosing to the
public either the existence of the FBI's request for its customers'
records, or the court order itself.
Actual Court Order:
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