Word: subpoena
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Because, it turns out, EZ-Pass statements count as third party records, in much the same category as electricity or natural gas bills. The upshot of this is that each of these, in the eyes of the law, can be easily obtained through a subpoena process, circumventing altogether the sticky rules that have developed around the acquisition of a fourth-amendment search warrant or a wiretap. The specific procedural guidelines for acquiring a subpoena are quite complicated, and can be laid out in each instance by legislation, but in practice the rule tends...
...quite clear on this point, is that if Google stores this information, and if it’s accessible to them, that they will happily share it with a court if they’re asked to do so by law—for example, by way of a subpoena. Worse still, neither Google nor the government is even compelled to let you know that the information is even being sought after...
...surface personal details which are at best humiliating and at worst could do you long term harm. This isn’t all just theory, either: despite fervent efforts by the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Yahoo! has, for example, responded to a number of subpoena requests by corporations for the names of employees who had been criticizing company management pseudonymously on stock market discussion boards...
...persisted. He issued a subpoena for several of the tapes, which ultimately proved that the Nixon White House had been involved in a conspiracy to conceal its role in authorizing the Watergate break...
...CHARGE: While wiretaps, subpoena powers and surveillances are routinely used against drug dealers and organized crime, Kerry would now repeal the Patriot Act's use of these tools against terrorists. --BUSH-CHENEY campaign advertisement...