Posted on 01/21/2018 11:49:50 AM PST by billorites
How long does your mobile phone provider store data for law enforcement access?
By Darlene Storm, Computerworld | SEP 28, 2011
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been trying to obtain the when, why and how law enforcement uses cell phone location data to track Americans. Today the ACLU posted the 2010 cell photo data retention chart received from the Justice Department via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
“Retention Periods of Major Cellular Providers” was meant “to advise law enforcement agents seeking to obtain cell phone records.” Mobile phone providers store data ranging from text messages, to pictures, IP addresses, browsing history, cell towers used and call logs.
For example in location tracking, since July 2008, AT&T indefinitely keeps data about which cell towers were used by your phone. Verizon stores your cell-site data for “1 rolling year.” Sprint and Nextel keep it for 18 - 24 months. Virgin Mobile’s is ‘not retained’ but can be obtained through Sprint.
If law enforcement is so inclined as to find out, then the “details” of your text messages are conveniently kept by AT&T for “post paid 5 - 7 years;” it does not retain the text message content. Verizon holds onto your text message detail for “1 rolling year” and your actual text content for “3 - 5 days.” In case you were wondering, the “details” are like text “call” history which generally includes the date, time, sender’s phone number and receiver’s phone number. T-Mobile does not retain the message content, but hangs onto your text details for “pre-paid: 2 years; post-paid: 5 years.” Sprint and Nextel hold text detail for “18 months” depending upon the device. Virgin Mobile which is owned by Sprint keeps text detail for “60 - 90 days” and the text message content for “90 days {search warrant required with “text of text” request}.” Wow, at least one had the decency to mention a warrant is required.
They didn’t know this until this weekend of the shoot frown? Congress requested this information months ago.
So unsurprising. Well, fire anyone involved, whether by action or inaction, in failing to save or retain these messages.
Wait, over 10,000 text messages even after deleting five critical months of them?! Wow.
Shut down. Stupid Autocorrect.
That’s a pile of bovine fecal material!
I worked for one of the top 10 defense contractors between 1985-1995. Early on in the computer days a few people tried the old “the dog ate my homework” excuse (i.e. -sorry my project is late, the file somehow got deleted/lost/corrupted). It became a firing offense, it didn’t matter how senior you were or who you knew. You are responsible to backup your data period - no excuses.
So I call bull$hit on this... you lose files you are FIRED.
Face it. Sessions died or had his EEG go flatline months ago. It's been a "Dave" act since then. Why? Who knows?
The dawg ate their homework
Frankly, I dont believe it for a nanosecod.
Or, by farce: it becomes such a laughingstock that nobody believes them.
The mealy-mouthed explanation, as if only passive, technological glitches occurred by themselves, rings of falsehood. In a justice-based Justice Department, there would be a full-court press to investigate who is responsible for these “glitches”, exactly how, when and why they occurred. I don’t buy an accidental loss of data AT ALL. Especially when you consider that the exact time frame covered is at the heart of the time period when a conspiracy was apparently being executed to overturn the results of an election.
Do you really think Trump is stupid? He knows all and knew all this at the time. in fact he knew it before ;) It was all done under the watchful eye of the IG and there are also backups, partial backups and no such agency copies. The period is from transition through firing of Comey whereupon Comey’s office was taken down by a special team including Trump’s longtime security guy to make sure everything remains kosher. The question remains, is Mueller in on the sting or it’s first exhibit ... TBD
Obstruction of justice charges are only for the peasants. There are bunch of people who need to be thrown in the pokey for this type of activities.
You can’t get away with this in a private industry company under federal investigation. Someone goes to jail for obstruction of justice.
This was in the comments section to this article:
They shot Cable Boy! They shot Jerry!
Can’t they be forensically retrieved?
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