On Tuesday, Verizon issued a second statement to news media regarding its alleged role in a National Security Agency program to collect telephone call detail records for most Americans. Verizon denies turning over any call records to the NSA.
“Verizon was not asked by NSA to provide, nor did Verizon provide, customer phone records from any of these businesses, or any call data from those records,” according to the statement.
USA TODAY stands by its story, but will conduct additional reporting, spokesman Steven Anderson said Tuesday.
Verizon further said that “phone companies do not even make records of local calls in most cases because the vast majority of customers are not billed per call for local calls.”
This claim I know to be false. While the vast majority of customers aren’t billed for local calls, the phone companies collected local call detail records across most, if not all, of their territories, even in places where metered local service is not offered.
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Jul 01, 2006
BellSouth, Verizon not involved in NSA phone record database - Homeland Stupidity