Carriers on average, keep our data for two years

Hello folks,

I don’t know about you, but is it really necessary to keep data for at least 2 years? In a way, I’m glad this article was published, but some of the companies keeping our data for 5 years is a little much. Although, the IRS says to hold on to stuff for 7 years, I think all this is extreme.

Let’s say you’re done filing your taxes. Once you get whatever you return is, you don’t need that data. If there isn’t any investigations in a certain area in a certain period, get rid of it. The problem is, you don’t have any oversite on whether the data is used as it should anyway, and its a good thing I don’t collect such data. If I did, it’d be 30 days for tracking data, and if you weren’t part of any investigation, I’d remove it. There is no need to keep GPS data to do day-to-day business, is it?

Most top mobile carriers retain geolocation data for two years on average, FCC findings show comes from Cyberscoop and it is a very interesting read.

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