• Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Phone records are the property of the operating company. It’s a business record. Every operating company has a compliance manager who works to provide legal access to the company’s business records. Of course, the effort to do that costs money for the company. But, for a company to allow access to its business records without a legal subpoena, means that the operating company is not run worth shit.

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      1 year ago

      Why does the content of the call matter for business records? Shouldn’t it just be “X made a 4m:37s call to Y at TIME on DATE.”?

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        1 year ago

        Two separate things. Phone records have calls made/received, duration, that sort of thing. Tap and trace is the actual call plus location. Two different types of subpenas.

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          1 year ago

          My question remains! Why have that part? Other than “I might need to spy on someone because reasons”?

          Why record the calls at all? Thats so much data storage wasted for junk.

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              1 year ago

              I understand better what you were saying. I still see no justification to record calls at all. There may be legal documents supporting it, but I can’t fathom any reason it could be used for good.

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                1 year ago

                There are things that are against the law you know. A lot of mob cases were made from wire taps

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                  But spying on everyone to catch the relatively few bad guys…

                  Just because criminal organizations have been brought down with these taps doesn’t mean it’s right. Could authorities open all the mail to find something if they wantrd/needed to?