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are cell phone conversations recorded

Jskid

Jskid

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This is kind of funny. I lent someone my cell and she pranked called a restraunt. Today the cops call me giving me a hard time and he said they can pull my call record without my concent. What is "call record"? Can they view your text messages, there's just one really personal message I wouldn't want them to see. btw I'm in Canada with Rogers
 
The conversations themselves are not. But the providers know who was called and when and from where generally speaking.

Technically texts are viewable/recordable/whatever you'd like to call it. For how long they're retained I suppose depends on the company.

They shouldn't be looking at any of them unless they're required to for an investigation, but I woudn't worry too much about it. As far as the personal text...unless you've admitted to killing someone, who cares. Don't sweat it.
 
If you sexted someone. The popo wont care. Like what's the person said above, as long as you don't admit to murder you'll be fine. And tell them you gave your friend your phone.
 
They know which calls were made/received. I am sure they also keep texts. As a matter of course I'm quite sure at this point there are no recordings of actual audio. Your friend also is an fing moron. Prank calling was fun before caller ID and nobody had the ability to monitor this kind of thing. In 2012? Get a fvcking brain.
 
The conversations are not recorded, but phone call info is usually recorded. It also depends on the carrier. I work for the phone company and we don't track all the texts but pretty sure the phone calls are. There's just no infrastructure to track everything. You would need a HUGE data center with PB(1PB = 1024TB) and PB's worth of disk space not to mention high I/O speed capacity to keep up. Our CDMA network handles around 1 million calls per day. That's calls, not texts, and it's CDMA, not HSPA. I imagine the HSPA network handles WAY more. Just gives an idea of the true traffic going on the cell network. It is just not viable to record voice or texts unless there is an ongoing investigation on something.

Smaller carriers on the other hand may record more stuff, but not the bigger ones. I doubt any record conversations on an ongoing basis. Now if you use Google voice then yeah chances are it's recorded, it's just something Google would do. The voice is probably converted to text and they store it.
 
Calls can be recorded by a third party but to be legal it requires a warrant. A call log is a record of who you called (most bills list the calls you made and duration). From a legal perspective the cops can prove your phone was used to call therestraunt; but they can't prove who used the phone.

Do not know if cell companies record text messages by default; obviously they can do so if a warrant request such.

Jskid said:
This is kind of funny. I lent someone my cell and she pranked called a restraunt. Today the cops call me giving me a hard time and he said they can pull my call record without my concent. What is "call record"? Can they view your text messages, there's just one really personal message I wouldn't want them to see. btw I'm in Canada with Rogers
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you2 said:
Calls can be recorded by a third party but to be legal it requires a warrant. A call log is a record of who you called (most bills list the calls you made and duration). From a legal perspective the cops can prove your phone was used to call therestraunt; but they can't prove who used the phone.

Do not know if cell companies record text messages by default; obviously they can do so if a warrant request such.
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they probably don't, what profit is there for them to do so? NSA on the other hand, could easily farm the texts...not nearly as much data / storage required

The cops could just declare you an enemy combatant and then tap your phone and detain you for as long as they wanted, if they felt like it. Fortunately that hasn't happened yet but I wonder how much longer until it does?
 
soccerballtux said:
not true, NSA has installed the infrastructure in all the main hub cities
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/interviews/klein.html
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That's NSA. Apples and oranges. I'm talking about typical phone companies. I work for one, and we often do call traces and such, but one thing we cannot do is text traces. There are 1 milion calls per day on the MTX, that's only calls, not texts, and that's only CDMA. The volume is just too high to start tracking voice and text content. Only time stamps are stored and even that requires a large data warehouse. Sure some huge companies that have ties with government agencies may have the infrastructure, but most wont.
 
Red Squirrel said:
That's NSA. Apples and oranges. I'm talking about typical phone companies. I work for one, and we often do call traces and such, but one thing we cannot do is text traces. There are 1 milion calls per day on the MTX, that's only calls, not texts, and that's only CDMA. The volume is just too high to start tracking voice and text content. Only time stamps are stored and even that requires a large data warehouse. Sure some huge companies that have ties with government agencies may have the infrastructure, but most wont.
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yes, I was talking about NSA, not the phone companies
 
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