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Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts by Rimintil on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:16AM (#34834880)
It makes no sense that a telcom would be 'backing up' your SMS (or maybe not even SMS -- could all be iMessage which the telcom doesn't see) texts. What reason would they have to do so? Where's the business value of storing all of that data, supporting the infrastructure, supporting restore requests from customers?
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Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts by justinclift on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:38AM (#34835138)
Some countries have legislation around this. eg telecoms providers must at all times keep the latest 2 days worth of SMS messages from all subscribers
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Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts by late2part on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:51PM (#34837919)
Just long enough to be quickly copied off if appropriate filters exist.
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Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts by from on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:54AM (#34835321)
Here is a graphic from a VICE article: https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1634930279896-r...

Actual message content is kept only for a short period of time.

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Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts by chaostheory on Friday February 17, 2023 @10:02AM (#34835434)
The carriers themselves likely wouldn’t do it. The government just needs a data hose

https://www.dhs.gov/fusion-center-locations-and-contact-info...

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Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts by artificialLimbs on Friday February 17, 2023 @10:33AM (#34835781)
Training data for machine learning. Targeted ads. Punishing your enemies.
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Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts by andylynch on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:51PM (#34837922)
Call taping and message archiving via the network is a somewhat popular way of handling these requirements for regulated staff.
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