Vodafone Publishes Highly Detailed Report Into State Surveillance Requests

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/06/vodafone-intercept-report/

Carrier Vodafone has published a report detailing the surveillance
demands that were made on its users by government agencies and
authorities in 29 of the different countries around the world in which
it operates. The report covers the period 1 April 2013 and 31 March
2014.

The first of what will likely be an annual report hereafter, called
the Law Enforcement Disclosure Report, was published this morning. In
it Vodafone publishes a per-country breakdown of lawful intercept
requests, and comms data requests.

In this breakdown it either lists whether, in the case of the UK for
example, it cannot legally disclose “lawful interception or access to
communications data”; or whether it does not yet have a technical
capability to “enable lawful interception” (as is the case in
Tanzania, apparently).

Or else the carrier discloses the volume of intercept and data access
requests it received over the period – as in the case of Spain where
it apparently had 24,212 lawful intercept demands and 48,679 comms
data demands.

The latter category refers largely to comms metadata, according to
Vodafone, but can also include “demands for other types of customer
data such as name, physical address and services subscribed”.
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