{"id":7647,"date":"2012-08-30T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T12:19:08","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7647","title":{"rendered":"Wired.com: &#8220;We Don\u2019t Need No Stinking Warrant: The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2012\/08\/administrative-subpoenas\/all\/\">We Don\u2019t Need No Stinking Warrant: The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena<\/a> by David Kravets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Golden Valley Electric Association of rural Alaska got an administrative subpoena from the Drug Enforcement Administration in December 2010 seeking electricity bill information on three customers, the company did what it usually does with subpoenas \u2014 it ignored them.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the association\u2019s customer privacy policy, because administrative subpoenas aren\u2019t approved by a judge.<\/p>\n<p>But by law, utilities must hand over customer records \u2014 which include any billing and payment information, phone numbers and power consumption data \u2014 to the DEA without court warrants if drug agents believe the data is \u201crelevant\u201d to an investigation. So the utility eventually complied, after losing a legal fight earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images_blogs\/threatlevel\/2012\/08\/goldenvalleysub.pdf\">administrative subpoena<\/a> (.pdf): &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7647\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}