MedicalConspiracies- Verizon And Virgin Mobile Retain Content Of All Your Text Messages (OT)

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Subject:	Verizon And Virgin Mobile Retain Content Of All Your Text Messages
Date:	Sat, 1 Oct 2011 22:09:41 +1300 (NZDT)
From:	Misty <misty8@xtra.co.nz>
CC:	paranormal_research@yahoogroups.com

Facebook tracks what sites you visit after you've signed in also, and you can't sign out. N http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2042573/Facebook-privacy-row-Social-network-giant-admits-bugs.html    http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=217038  Source: Raw Story  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/28/virgin-mobile-and-verizon-retain-content-of-text-messages/  The cell phone service providers Virgin Mobile and Verizon retain the content of text messages, according to a Justice Department memo obtained by the America Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina.  Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, Nextel, and Virgin Mobile all retain information relating to text messages, such as who the text messages were sent to and when, but only Verizon and Virgin Mobile retain the actual content of the text messages. Virgin Mobile keeps text message content for 90 days and Verizon keeps it for 3 to 5 days.  The Justice Department document, "Retention Periods of Major Cellular Providers," was published in 2010 as a guide for law enforcement agents seeking to obtain cell phone records.  The document also reveals that Verizon, Sprint and Nextel retain IP session and destination information, potentially allowing law enforcement to ascertain what sites someone has visited on their cell phone.  Information that could be used to determine the movement of a cell phones is also retained by the cell phone service providers.  Cell phones continuously transmit data to cell-sites scattered across the nation and cell phone service providers keep records of the this geolocational data, essentially recording the physical movement of anyone carrying a cell phone.  Verizon and T-Mobile keep that data for one year, Sprint and Nextel keep it up to two years, and AT&T keeps it indefinitely.  ACLU affiliates in 34 states across the U.S. have filed public records requests seeking information from law enforcement agencies as to when, why and how they are using cell phone location data to track Americans.  "The ability to access cell phone location data is an incredibly powerful tool and its use is shrouded in secrecy," said Catherine Crump, staff attorney for the ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.  "The public has a right to know how and under what circumstances their location information is being accessed by the government."  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/28/virgin-mobile-and-verizon-retain-content-of-text-messages/  -------------------  Reader ProggieMan Offers The Following:  That is NOTHING!  The United States' National Security Agency (NSA) maintains a database containing hundreds of billions of records of telephone calls made by U.S. citizens from the four largest telephone carriers in the United States: AT&T, SBC, BellSouth (all three now called AT&T), and Verizon.[1]  The existence of this database and the NSA program that compiled it was unknown to the general public until USA Today broke the story on May 10, 2006.[1]  It is estimated that the database contains over 1.9 trillion call-detail records.[2] According to Bloomberg News, the effort began approximately seven months before the September 11, 2001 attacks.[3]  The records include detailed call information (caller, receiver, date/time of call, length of call, etc) for use in traffic analysis and social network analysis, but do not include audio information or transcripts of the content of the phone calls.  In 2006 Verizon constructed its "secret room" on the second floor of a nondescript two-story building at 14503 Luthe Road, in Houston, Texas.  Once Verizon receives watch-listed names from the NSA, it then reroutes their Internet communications into that room, which is packed with secret Verint machines and software.  After passing through the Verint software, the messages are then transmitted in real time to a central government surveillance hub in Sterling, Virginia.  [This Sterling hub has not been located; leads to: cryptome[at] earthlink.net. Might be the Verizon GNSOC in Ashburn, VA, facility]  Run by the FBI, the hub is a newly built annex for the bureau's Engineering Research Laboratory (ERF), located on the grounds of the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. ... An encrypted T1 cable connects the ERF Annex in Sterling directly to the NSA at Fort Meade. ...  While Verizon's data network is centrally tapped at Luthe Road in Houston, it appears that the voice network is monitored from the company's sprawling facility on Hidden Ridge Avenue in Irving, Texas, near Dallas.  It is there that the company's Global Security Operations Center keeps tabs on the entire Verzion system, looking for fraud.  According to a sworn affidavit by Babak Pasdar, a computer security expert who has worked as a contractor for a number of major telecoms, he discovered a mysterious DS-3 line at the heart of one company's system -- a link labeled "Quantico Circuit."  His description of the company and the link seems to match that of Verizon as outlined in a lawsuit against the company.  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/28/virgin-mobile-and-verizon-retain-content-of-text-messages/