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That is plainly allowed under federal law.

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C § 2703(c), a provider “may divulge a record or other information pertaining to a subscriber to or customer of such service (not including the contents of communications covered by subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2)”…“to a governmental entity, if the provider, in good faith, believes that an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure without delay of information relating to the emergency.”



No one is arguing that it's illegal, OP only said its 'spooky', therefore bad. Sometimes bad things are plainly allowed by federal law.




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