The U.S. government made close to 150,000 requests for customer information in the first half of 2014, including 72,500 subpoenas, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) said as part of its second Transparency Report.
Randal Milch, Verizon's executive vice president-public policy and general counsel, said that the requests, while seemingly high in total, actually reflected a "very small" number of affected customers.