The Federal Communications Commission should investigate whether phone companies are violating federal communications law by providing calling records to the National Security Agency as part of an anti-terrorism program, an FCC commissioner said Monday. . . . On Monday, Atlanta-based BellSouth issued a statement that it had found no contract to provide phone records to the NSA and had not been providing bulk customer calling records to the agency. Verizon has refused to confirm or deny whether it has participated in the program. (Seattle Post Intelligencer, Monday)
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