March 10, 2008
New Zealand Police Want Operators to Archive SMSs
Police in new Zealand are seeking a change in the law to compel the mobile operators to archive text messages sent through their networks for crime fighting purposes. (Operators usually save text messages only 72 hours or a week at the longest). Vodafone does not currently archive messages, and Telecom has said that it plans to stop storing them by the end of this year. [via Cellular News]
"The move would enable the police to study an "audit trail" of messages sent, even after they have been erased from the mobile phones of the recipients.
Police Minister, Annette King said that she is encouraging police to seek a solution with network operators before the Government would look at changing the law.
New Zealanders send some 640 million SMSs per month."
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