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BellSouth Corp., the No. 3 U.S. local telephone carrier, on Monday denied turning over customer telephone records to the National Security Agency (NSA) on a large scale as part of the NSA’scall-tracking program to detect terrorist plots.
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BellSouth said in a statement on Monday that it did not have a contract with the NSA, which is tasked with eavesdropping on foreign communications and protecting U.S. government communications.
“Based on our review to date, we have confirmed no such contract exists and we have not provided bulk customer calling records to the NSA,” BellSouth said in a statement.
