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[Rimintil]

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?

[from → Rimintil]

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.

[justinclift → Rimintil]

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

[late2part → justinclift]

Just long enough to be quickly copied off if appropriate filters exist.

[chaostheory → Rimintil]

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...

[artificialLimbs → Rimintil]

Training data for machine learning. Targeted ads. Punishing your enemies.

[andylynch → Rimintil]

Call taping and message archiving via the network is a somewhat popular way of handling these requirements for regulated staff.