BellSouth is demanding that USA Today retract a story claiming it and two other carriers were under contract to the National Security Agency to surrender call records for a domestic anti-terrorism surveillance program. BellSouth claims the story's assertion that it was under contract to provide massive call record data to the NSA is untrue. . "No such contract exists and we have not provided bulk customer calling records to the NSA," the carrier said in a statement about the story, which appeared in the May 11 issue of USA Today. The link for this article located at NetworkWorld.com is no longer available. . Verizon challenges accusations of government spying, insisting that The Washington Post withdraw its article concerning customer data exposure.. BellSouth Rebuttal, NSA Surveillance, Call Records Controversy. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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