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All SMS providers retain full messages for spam/abuse analysis, etc. SMS is not a secure message transport and has never been advised as such.
by everfrustrated 3y ago
All SMS providers retain full messages for spam/abuse analysis, etc.
SMS is not a secure message transport and has never been advised as such.
- advisedwang 3y agoThis FOIA'd DoJ doc from 2010 seems few major carriers retain SMS contents, and only one for more than a week: https://www.aclu.org/cell-phone-location-tracking-request-response-cell-phone-company-data-retention-chart https://www.aclu.org/cell-phone-location-tracking-request-re...