Here are more details about how AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth have turned over call records for millions of their customers to the super-secret National Security Agency, which is reportedly using the data to search for terrorists.

Last month, a furor erupted when it was discovered that AT&T was using a Mountain View company Narus' software to secretly monitor peoples' phone calls and emails for the National Security Agency.

Here is the Merc's coverage today on local outrage, and the EEF lawsuit.