Comments on: Verizon hands over text logs to US Police http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/12/verizon_hands_over_text_logs_to_us_police.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/12/verizon_hands_over_text_logs_to_us_police.html/comment-page-1#comment-179579 Mike Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:14:42 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/12/verizon_hands_over_text_logs_to_us_police.html#comment-179579 Under EU directives all MNO's have to store all call and SMS info for a loooong time. There are some pretty huge beige boxes about the place filling up, given the Bn or so SMS per day in the UK alone. Or something like that. Counter-terrorisim and organised crime-fighting is onoe application. However, when your ex-girlfriend is after half your assets because she claims you were together long enough to be in a de facto relationship, you may well thank the lord that your/her MNO can prove that the first flirty SMS exchange happened 6 months later than she claims ;-) (This is a real-world actual scenario that a close friend is in the middle of right now. He even submitted our wedding piccys showing him attending with his previous squeeze as evidence of his romantic chronology) Under EU directives all MNO’s have to store all call and SMS info for a loooong time. There are some pretty huge beige boxes about the place filling up, given the Bn or so SMS per day in the UK alone.

Or something like that.

Counter-terrorisim and organised crime-fighting is onoe application. However, when your ex-girlfriend is after half your assets because she claims you were together long enough to be in a de facto relationship, you may well thank the lord that your/her MNO can prove that the first flirty SMS exchange happened 6 months later than she claims ;-)

(This is a real-world actual scenario that a close friend is in the middle of right now. He even submitted our wedding piccys showing him attending with his previous squeeze as evidence of his romantic chronology)

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