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trinsic2 on July 13, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly...

Finally, some sense. My first though when reading the article was why are we even allowing these companies to collect that data in the first place.

Aloisius on July 13, 2024 [–]

How would they bill customers and other providers for usage if they didn't keep call/text metadata?

yazzku on July 13, 2024 | [–]

These are records from 2022. The hack wasn't carried out the second the calls were made. You really need to keep the records that long to do your billing? That's absurd.

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