Verizon Denies Allegations
It appears that Verizon has followed in the footsteps of BellSouth Corp by denying the USA Today allegations that they handed over customer information to the NSA.
The comments by Verizon followed a statement from BellSouth Corp. on Monday saying a preliminary investigation found that it had not given such customer information en masse to the NSA. A report last week in USA Today said the two companies and AT&T Inc. had done so to help the government fight terrorism.
USA Today said yesterday that it was confident of its coverage but that it would not dismiss the BellSouth and Verizon statements out of hand and would keep investigating the matter.
It really makes you wonder who is telling the truth about this vitally important privacy nightmare. If USA Today has it all wrong then where did the information come from originally? There is always a little truth to a cliche’ so I find it hard to believe that the newspaper is out of line for writing what it did.
The coming days should prove to be interesting as this entire issue seems to heat up almost hourly.
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