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					Originally Posted by frahse  I have been thinking about this.
 In the US at least, I hope that a court order, at a minimum, is required to get customer information.
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 It is not. Police or other officials can request that a business turn over its client information, and 
many of them will comply. 
More recently, 
Verizon and 
AT&T have turned over a great deal of data to the government without court orders.