Instead, the code is marked with a sort of tombstone that indicates which data can be overwritten. When you press the delete button on your phone, the data that make up your message don’t disappear in an instant.
The mayor himself had reauthorized a directive noting that even deleted electronic communications sent and received by government employees would be stored automatically, although the memo did not explicitly mention text messages.īut even if your deleted text messages are off your carrier’s server, they may not be gone forever. SkyTel-which does much of its business through government and corporate contracts-offers message archiving as one of its key features. A court order could force a carrier to retain certain messages as part of an ongoing investigation, but it would probably be impossible to get the contents of a 2002 text message from most cell phone companies.īut as the Detroit Free Press noted after it uncovered the first trove of messages in January, Kilpatrick got in trouble because he used a government-issued SkyTel pager. Sprint, on the other hand, keeps messages on its server for approximately two weeks. AT&T Wireless, for example, says it keeps sent text messages for 48 hours only-after that, they are wiped off the system. Most cell phone carriers don’t permanently save the enormous amount of text-message data that is sent between users every day. Probably not-although there are exceptions. If you delete an old text message, can someone (or his lawyer) still find it? In the messages, Kilpatrick and Beatty-who are charged with perjury for denying their affair in court-professed their love to one another and graphically described their sexual encounters. On Tuesday, a Michigan court released yet another batch of romantic text messages sent between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff Christine Beatty in 20.
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