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evacide | 10 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +4 
 There have been many stories of companies giving up user data to stalkers and other criminals pretending to be cops with emergency data requests, but this one stands out because it's so utterly shambolic. The stalker submitted his request using a protonmail address FFS.

https://www.404media.co/verizon-gave-her-data-to-a-stalker-this-has-completely-changed-my-life/
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Low Information Voter | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 "[...] it highlights the increasing problem of criminals filing fraudulent emergency data requests"

Criminals have always had that capability.

Actually, this highlights the increasing problem of corporations cyberstalking everybody, combined with an increasing cultural fetish for badge-licking.

And the USA is undoubtedly the "best of the West" in personal freedoms. We're so fscked...