2012/12/06

American officers proposed 2-year SMS retention


This time, not to mention the traffic data (who sends to whom, when, from where), but what about the content: American Association for police services in major cities of the Federal Congress proposed the adoption of retention contents of short messages (SMS) for a period of 2 years. New abstract base justifying the assertion that "the content of the messages is often critical to a police investigation," therefore all the more Bolita mess and laziness operators content and traffic data deleted too, and particularly patchy. Not only that, by SMS not to get villains, some villains are especially privileged to have the choice of operator.





Verizon eg. store all the data for between three and five days, while the other three - AT & T, Sprint and T-Mobile do not store the contents of messages, but only "traffic data" and even then on their own record, and only only for a period of several months. Standardized keeping everything the content and value of a long period of 2 years would also contribute significantly to the police efforts to gather such information.

This would unify the practice of acquiring traffic data for the calls where there is practically no limit, not police states not for the total (federal) service.

The time for filing a claim is somewhat unusual. In light of the e-mail scandal Petraeus / Kelly their Parliament is currently discussing just about limitations on access to e-mail, that is the limitation, not the expansion of police powers.

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