Among the surveillance reforms Congress is set to implement this year, the shutdown of the Call Detail Records program is a handy achievement. Given the evidence that this program is invasive, ineffective and illegal, we expect Congress to agree that this is an easy decision. The 2019 End of Mass Collection of Americans` Phone Records Act (p. 936/H.R. 1942), introduced by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore) and Rand Paul (R-Ky), and Reps. Justin Amash (I-Mich) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif), would remove authoritative language for the Section 215 program. CDT supports this legislation and believes that the licence should be removed from the law. That way, if the NSA decides that the CDR program is necessary and can operate legally, it must convince a subsequent Congress. This ensures vigorous debate about the merits of such a program and its risks to privacy, civil rights and civil liberties. Illegal registration is a crime, except in specifically listed circumstances where a first offence is a misdemeanor; It may also incur civil liability.
How do I get these documents? I need these records to prove to my employer that I was not using my phone at the time of my accident to get my job back. What is the procedure for obtaining these documents? Calling? My x-friend called me hundreds of times, I deleted, can they be used in court for a harassment case? Can a phone recording actually show 3 people at the same time? That there is active communication? Even if 2 people are talking on the phone and the caller says to wait and make a call and have a call, is that considered a conference call because there are 3 people on that line? A detailed call record contains data fields that describe a specific instance of a telecommunications transaction, but not the content of that transaction. Simply put, a detailed call recording describing a particular phone call can include the phone numbers of calling and receiving participants, the start time, and the duration of that call. In modern practice, call detail recordings are much more detailed and include attributes such as:[2][3] Text messages are also displayed in call detail recordings, but the content of the messages is not. In order to receive the content, a request must be made to the mobile phone company within a few days of the incident. However, not all messages are what mobile phone companies consider text messaging. For example, iMessage uses end-to-end encryption and a data/Wi-Fi connection to send and receive instead of SMS. This is what Apple uses for Apple devices and it uses SMS when iMessage is not available. Due to these alternative systems, mobile phone companies have no information about these messages. Ultimately, it`s incoming and outgoing data (like loading a web page or YouTube video) and not really a text message. No later than 15 days after becoming aware that an electronic communications service provider that creates call recordings in the ordinary course of its business has amended its policy regarding the retention of call recordings so that it results in a retention period of less than 18 months, the Director of National Intelligence shall: in writing, notify the congressional intelligence committees of any such change. „It is hereby ordered that the custodian of the records of the National Security Agency (NSA) provide an electronic copy of the following material upon service of this order and thereafter continue production on a continuous basis, unless ordered by the court: any detailed call records or „telephone metadata“ created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and foreign countries; or (ii) entirely in the United States, including local telephone calls.
Phone metadata includes comprehensive information about the routing of communications, including but not limited to session credentials (e.g., originating and scheduling phone number, International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number, International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, etc.), trunk identifier, calling card numbers, and call time and duration. Telephone metadata does not include the physical content of a communication as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2510(8) or the name, address, or financial information of a subscriber or customer. [6] No later than 30 days after December 18, 2015, the Director must submit a report to the congressional intelligence committees listing any electronic communications service provider that, at the time of the report, has a policy on retaining detailed call records for a period of 18 months or less. The mobile phone companies` records of cell phone use are huge and very detailed. Mobile phone companies record when and where a call is made, when text messages are sent and received, and when data is transmitted. Instead of relying on the CDR program, the NSA quietly shut it down for several months. A senior official linked the shutdown to technical irregularities that led the NSA to delete its data assets in 2018. The NSA reportedly recommended abandoning the program because of the logistical and legal burdens associated with maintaining operations.
Even in the government`s request to re-approve the program, it officially confirmed for the first time that the NSA had suspended the CDR program „after weighing the relative value of the program`s intelligence, associated costs, and compliance and data integrity concerns.“ The fact that the NSA can easily delete and shut down all of the program`s datasets shows that this is not vital.
