Teresag

Mobile operators normally keep text message logs for a short period of time (a few hours or days depending on the operator). After that, they usually keep a CDR (Call detail records, which is information about the subscriber billing activities kept by Network operators) with data such as the time of the text message and the originator and destination of the message. But for privacy purposes the complete logs with the content are no longer available. Regarding matters such as lawsuits I know that text messages can be shown as evidence during the course of a trial in some countries, however, I am not sure when it is legal to get in touch with the operators to get SMS records from a particular user and for the phone companies to show their records for legal purposes to certain parties. I believe this also will depend on the country and legislation applicable.