Bruce Schneier highlights an article in the New York Times about an ATT database containing 1.92 trillion electronic records of telephone calls and Internet message routing information. I won't bother linking to the original article since it is sitting useless behind a subscription firewall.
Since America has neither an obligation to erase traffic data as in Article 6 of the 2002 telecommunications data protection Directive nor an obligation to store traffic data as provided in the upcoming surveillance Directive, it is up to individual carriers how much data they want to store.
Costumers of ATT might want to take note and switch to some other provider that shows more respect for the human right to confidential communications.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at March 4, 2006 05:52 PM