EFF : Report Confirms FBI Misuse of Authority to Obtain Phone Records

Report Confirms FBI Misuse of Authority to Obtain Phone Records

from an EFF blog post

“Exigent letters” are informal requests (i.e., not subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other statutory requests) that ask telecoms to provide “call detail records” about particular subscribers, and, in some letters, illegally asking telecoms to disclose the subscriber's “community of interest" (friends of friends' phone records).

pretty soon they will be friends of friends of freinds or friends of friends phone records and they will think i've been calling Kevin Bacon..