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Citing security, Centre asks phone companies to stay call records for 2 years

·        The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has amended the Unified License Agreement asking telecommunication and net service suppliers also as all different telecommunication licensees to maintain business and call detail records for a minimum of 2 years, rather than the present 1 year practice.

·        The extra time, was based on requests from multiple security agencies.

·        DoT has said all call detail record, exchange detail record, and internet protocol detail record of communications “exchanged” on a network should be archived for 2 years or until specific by the govt. for “scrutiny” for security reasons.

·        Internet service suppliers also will have to be maintain details of “internet telephony” additionally to the same old IP detail record for a period of 2 years.

·        Under Clause No. 39.20 of the licence agreement that the DoT has with the operators, the latter need to preserve records including CDRs and IP detail records (IPDR), for a minimum of one year for scrutiny by the Licensor (which is DoT) for “security reasons,” and also the Licensor “may issue directions/instructions from time to time” with reference to these records.

·        The licence condition conjointly goes on to mandate that CDRs be provided by mobile corporations to law-enforcement agencies and to numerous courts upon their specific requests or directions, that theres a laid-down protocol.


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