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Privacy experts sound off on mobile data retention

September 29, 2011 |

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Yesterday a document detailing mobile carriers’ data retention policies was revealed. We took some time to get privacy advocates' take on the new information, which included the fact the Verizon alone keeps your text message content for a number of days and AT&T holds onto to call records for up to seven years. “The moral of the story is use a prepaid phone and text,” says Beth Givens, director of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. “If… Read More