AT&T has revealed it received 302,000 data requests in 2013 related to criminal and civil cases, CNET News reports. The requests from local, state and federal authorities include more than 248,000 subpoenas, 37,000 court orders and 16,000 search warrants, the report states. AT&T was also asked nearly 38,000 times “to share real-time and historical locations of its customers” and another 94,000 times to share location data in an “emergency” situation. The AT&T report is similar to that of Verizon, which last month also released its report on government requests for data.
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