Cell Phone Companies

Do cell phone companies track text messages?

A friend told me that the government can track the text messages being sent and received that are being used within all major cell phone companies. I would guess that At&t, verizon, and t-mobile would have to many text message to keep track of. Is this true?

It’s under the Patriot Act passed in 2001 briefly after the 9/11 attack. The purpose is to find potential terrorist suspects. It was meant to only monitor oversea callers to the U.S. However, the U.S. government later demanded cell phone companies to cooperate and hang in their logs, thus expanding the program onto domestic calls as well (it’s a big controversy). The program is carried out by the National Security Agency in Maryland. The computer will first capture calls that contain sensitive words such as president, white house, bomb, or suicide in multiple languages. Then the it further filters them and sends them to the employees to listen. Text messages are easier to tap because they are not encrypted, however, text monitoring is not widely done because criminals seldom use text messages (due to the fact that they would leave traceable evidence to the DA). Secret Service however, will monitor all the calls and text messages within 1 mile radius of the president and the VP.

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