Statement·other·said 2015-06-02
“The phone records will be in the hands of the phone companies with hundreds of people available to look at the records, versus 20 or 30 people in the government.”
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Verdict
Falseby PolitiFact
2015-06-04Reasoning
Phone companies already held these records before the USA Freedom Act. The law ended bulk NSA collection; it did not move records to telecoms or expand the number of employees who could see them. Verizon confirmed no new access.
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