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It's crazy that "decades of Americans’ phone calls" is even a thing stored some place.
by pschneidr 10y ago
It's crazy that "decades of Americans’ phone calls" is even a thing stored some place.
- llamataboot 10y agoand text messages, and skype calls, and...
- gourou 10y agoI thought Skype calls used to be P2P
- Alupis 10y agoOnly sometimes, when it couldn't make a great connection between the two callers. Now, from my understanding, Microsoft has re-worked Skype to always connect via their Skype servers (as the middle man).
- verytrivial 10y agoThe Skype developers tried to let us know many many years ago: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fishywang/318591561 https://www.flickr.com/photos/fishywang/318591561
- Phlarp 10y agoUsed to be, yes.
- visarga 10y agoEspecially now, that speech recognition is close to human performance.
- greendragon 10y agoOn the other hand it'd be nice to be able to get dead relatives' archives.
- rch 10y agoThat's extremely creepy.
- greendragon 10y agoThe better insult would be 'pathetic', you know.
- rch 10y agoSure, but it wasn't an insult.
- pixl97 10y agoWhy not, once the digital age started, the price of storing records has dropped dramatically. Yea, it was really expensive back in the day, but don't forget how much we paid for phone service back then too.
- forgetsusername 10y ago>Why not, once the digital age started, the price of storing records has dropped dramatically. How come your default is "why not"? Shouldn't there be a justification for indefinitely storing these types of records? And "might commit a crime in the future" doesn't qualify. Yes it's cheap to store them. So what?
- pixl97 10y ago>Shouldn't there be a justification for indefinitely storing these types of records? As the devils advocate, why should their be? Also, deleting stuff in the business world is a major pain in the ass. Do we delete it after X years? What if part of that data is involved in a long term lawsuit, how do we only delete the part that is not? Will the information have historical value at some point? And the big one, the telephone company has worked with our governments for decades sharing this information. The real question is "How long has the .gov been paying the telcos for these records". This is probably why they are stored forever.