Comcast’s first transparency report says the cable company...
Comcast’s first transparency report says the cable company received 24,698 requests for information as part of criminal cases in 2013. Those requests broke down into 19,377 requests through subpoenas, 3,893 court orders, 253 warrants for content and 1,080 not for…
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content. It received 961 emergency requests. The two-page report (http://bit.ly/1hJc0ga) includes a chart on national security requests showing National Security Letter and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders and requests, all in the range of 0 to 999. “By law, we are required to respond to valid government requests,” Comcast Chief Privacy Officer Gerard Lewis wrote in a blog post accompanying the report’s release (http://bit.ly/1gXFxBh). “Protecting our customers’ privacy is among our highest priorities and is required by the Cable Act, one of the strictest federal privacy laws. So with every request, whether it is from a local police department or the Federal Bureau of Investigation, we make sure it complies with applicable legal standards before we respond with any information.” Lewis said FISA request disclosures are subject to a six-month delay, so the report shows “the number of requests from January 1 through June 30, 2013 only.”