I could see it both ways. If you believe the federal government is violently corrupt, you wouldn't want them to have any information on anything you said to dis

I could see it both ways. If you believe the federal government is violently corrupt, you wouldn't want them to have any information on anything you said to disparage them. If you see locals as corrupt and the federales as simply lacking ways to investigate and prosecute drug kingpins, then you might want much longer periods of data retention. Of course, if you're plagued by violence, you might not really care about telecommunications regulation, you might have more important things to worry about, like whether or not the Knights Templar are going to accidentally kill your local preacher's kidnapped daughter before the community can rally to collect the ransom: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YKL8jFBHRCsJ:online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303277704579349283584121344+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YKL8jFB... [cache because the original story seems to be broken on WSJ]