RoccoR
Gold Member
beagle9, et al,
Well, there are a couple of issues here.
Actually, the privacy of the citizen customer/consumer is actually more at risk --- with the database that can be used to make association between one caller and another. Among other things, Counterintelligence, Counter Terrorism and Major Crimes Task Forces are looking for connections between and associations made by numbers called with know espionage, terrorists and criminals.
When Congress mandate that data be maintained by a non-Government entity, they just increased the cost of doing business.
When Congress mandates the data be maintained by a non-Government entity, they just put the data that much closer to intruders and hackers that collect and sell that information commercially.
When Congress mandates the data be maintained by a non-Government entity, that adds another layer of administration that takes time to negotiate; and for which is vulnerable to technical tunneling.
Sometimes, what may appear to be an innocent business or private activity, is not necessarily the case. How can anyone set an arbitrary records destruction date when there is no way of determining the point at which it is no longer needed for reference.
Most Respectfully,
R
Well, there are a couple of issues here.
(COMMENT). Interesting that you speak of a record being kept by networks, and this being of people's accessing & activity upon the networks. Now in the spirit of freedom and privacy, I think that the networks should scrub their servers of anything that is not criminal related (two years old or older), from the networks. Networks should have standards in which are gone by or in place that captures any criminal activity that is used upon the network of course, and that activity should be saved for possible investigation by law enforcement by way of a warrant or supeona if it is requested or called for. The innocent citizens doing business or conducting themselves in a legal and ethical manor upon the networks, should not have their activities or history saved beyond two years max on the networks.Exactly wrong. Both can be traced back to a point of sale but only a phone can have a record of who/what/where it was used. If a gun is sold privately there may be no record of it's current owner, not so for a phone that always needs to connect to a network. Way more people are killed in this country by guns than by phone-toting terrorists.Guns can be traced...
A phone that can't be traced...
Actually, the privacy of the citizen customer/consumer is actually more at risk --- with the database that can be used to make association between one caller and another. Among other things, Counterintelligence, Counter Terrorism and Major Crimes Task Forces are looking for connections between and associations made by numbers called with know espionage, terrorists and criminals.
When Congress mandate that data be maintained by a non-Government entity, they just increased the cost of doing business.
When Congress mandates the data be maintained by a non-Government entity, they just put the data that much closer to intruders and hackers that collect and sell that information commercially.
When Congress mandates the data be maintained by a non-Government entity, that adds another layer of administration that takes time to negotiate; and for which is vulnerable to technical tunneling.
Sometimes, what may appear to be an innocent business or private activity, is not necessarily the case. How can anyone set an arbitrary records destruction date when there is no way of determining the point at which it is no longer needed for reference.
Most Respectfully,
R