Verizon offers details on records releases.

240,000 requests in 2 years from the Govt'

[walkman]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Verizon Communications says it has provided federal, state and local law enforcement agencies tens of thousands of communication and business records relating to customers based on emergency requests without a court order or administrative subpoena.

In an October 12 letter to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, a senior Verizon official says that from 2005 through this September there were 63,700 such requests, and of those, 720 came from federal authorities.
[cnn.com...]

they include a few examples when they gave sex predator info, but what about the rest? Seems like a clever distraction...

[weeks]

I'm hopeful that Verizon is re-thinking their behavior. It appears they were trying to be helpful to the government but instead seriously injured the trust of their customers.

[phranque]

does anyone still trust large corporations?