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Do Americans know that they are being profiled by their telephone company? Service providers such as AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile collect data and retain it but are not forthcoming in detailing the kind of data they collect and the reasons why they collect it. Taking this a bit further, a quick glimpse here shows what smartphone service providers collect and what governments are up to.
In the near future people, depending upon the country they live in and government mandates, persons will not be able to buy or sell without a card or a smartphone that can be scanned at either a store or by using other electronic means that will connect to ones cell phone, their account or their computer. Paying for anything in cash or by check will become history and not an option. This is a necessary evil that governments and corporations will enforce for the “benefit” of the country and the world. My advice…don’t sell out to this monster which is meant to place every human being on the planet under an all seeing eye that will finally take away every last freedom for the sake of the “good of the whole.”
Taking this further, with service provider tracking, there are incoming and outgoing calls of the phone number that a person uses, plus the numbers that are received from calls and even the duration of the call is placed in a database. Then there are the incoming and outgoing text messages and the phone numbers a person sends when texting which are being stored as well. Also, how often emails are checked is still another profiling gesture, plus the the location of the user.
Data retention policies vary among service providers, and certain records are kept longer than others. For instance, since September 2011, Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint all differ when it comes to how long they store any combination of cell tower history records, text message detail, text message content, IP session information, IP destination information, and bill copies. More