Virgin Mobile and Verizon retain content of text messages

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Eric W. Dolan
Raw Story
Sept 29, 2011

The cell phone service providers Virgin Mobile and Verizon retain the content of text messages, according to a Justice Department memo obtained by the America Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina.

Verizon, T-Mobile, ATT, Sprint, Nextel, and Virgin Mobile all retain information relating to text messages, such as who the text messages were sent to and when, but only Verizon and Virgin Mobile retain the actual content of the text messages. Virgin Mobile keeps text message content for 90 days and Verizon keeps it for 3 to 5 days.

The Justice Department document, “Retention Periods of Major Cellular Providers,” was published in 2010 as a guide for law enforcement agents seeking to obtain cell phone records.

The document also reveals that Verizon, Sprint and Nextel retain IP session and destination information, potentially allowing law enforcement to ascertain what sites someone has visited on their cell phone.

Information that could be used to determine the movement of a cell phones is also retained by the cell phone service providers. Cell phones continuously transmit data to cell-sites scattered across the nation and cell phone service providers keep records of the this geolocational data, essentially recording the physical movement of anyone carrying a cell phone.

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2 Responses to “Virgin Mobile and Verizon retain content of text messages”

  1. I only need my cellphone for business dealings and hopefully soon I will enjoy the pleasure of taking that phone and chunking it in the creek along with the pager. I lived two thirds of my life without either and managed just fine and I can’t hardly wait to get back to that.

  2. This is why you buy a desposable phone and do not give them your name. It makes it harder to track who is using it. If you can, like me, Change the phone every 60 days as well as the number. It is actually cheaper for me. To those who call me paranoid and extreme, i guess you just love to be monitored and have the fed pigs to know your business when they have need to even know whonyou are on the cell phones. The feds can use virtally everything you do file a charge on you. There are so many laws now that it is impossible to not be charged with anything you do. I hope that is enough reason to be “paraniod”.

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