(11.Mai 2006) The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY. (…)
„It‘s the largest database ever assembled in the world,“ said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA‘s activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency‘s goal is „to create a database of every call ever made“ within the nation‘s borders, this person added.