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T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless Say They Are Not Participating in NSA Phone-Records Project

Heather Forsgren Weaver writes on RCR Wireless News:

T-Mobile USA Inc. and Verizon Wireless said they did not participate in a data-mining operation run by the National Security Agency that collects phone records and looks for trends that would indicate terrorist activities.

The NSA phone-records operation, first reported by USA Today Thursday, comes on the heels of revelations that telecommunications customer call records are being sold over the Internet.

Telcos, especially mobile-phone carriers, spent the winter assuring the public, federal regulators and Capitol Hill that they do protect customer call records and that those who pretext—pretending to be a customer to obtain call records—should be the targets of any reforms.

posted by Fergie @ 5/12/2006 11:19:00 AM