“Amdocs has contracts with the 25 biggest phone companies in America, and more worldwide. The White
House and other secure government phone lines are protected, but it is virtually impossible to make a
call on normal phones without generating an Amdocs record of it.
“In recent years, the FBI and other government agencies have investigated Amdocs more than once. The
firm has repeatedly and adamantly denied any security breaches or wrongdoing. But sources tell Fox News
that in 1999, the super secret national security agency, headquartered in northern Maryland, issued
what’s called a Top Secret sensitive compartmentalized information report, TS/SCI, Sportning that
records of calls in the United States were getting into foreign hands – in Israel, in particular.
“Investigators don’t believe calls are being listened to, but the data about who is calling whom and
when is plenty valuable in itself. An internal Amdocs memo to senior company executives suggests just
how Amdocs generated call records could be used. ‘Widespread data mining techniques and algorithms….
combining both the properties of the customer (e.g., credit rating) and properties of the specific
‘behavior….’ Specific behavior, such as who the customers are calling.
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