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Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Police: Law Should Mandate Recording and Storing Text Messages
AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would
be required to record and store information about Americans' private
text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal that
police have submitted to the U.S. Congress. CNET has learned a constellation of law enforcement groups has asked the U.S. Senate to require that wireless companies retain that information, warning that the lack of a current federal requirement "can hinder law enforcement investigations." They want an SMS retention requirement to be "considered" during congressional discussions over updating a 1986 privacy law
for the cloud computing era -- a move that could complicate debate over
the measure and erode support for it among civil libertarians.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the law enforcement proposal is to
store the contents of SMS messages, or only the metadata such as the
sender and receiver phone numbers associated with the messages. Either
way, it's a heap of data: Forrester Research reports that more than 2 trillion SMS messages were sent in the U.S. last year, over 6 billion SMS messages a day...more
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