Communications data
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Communications data concerns information about communication.

Communications data is a part of a message that should be distinguished from the content of the message. It contains data on the communication’s origin, destination, route, time, date, size, duration, or type of underlying service.

See also

  • Call detail record
    Call detail record
    A call detail record , also known as call data record, is a data record produced by a telephone exchange or other telecommunications equipment documenting the details of a phone call that passed through the facility or device...

  • Internet Protocol Detail Record
  • Pen Register
    Pen register
    A pen register is an electronic device that records all numbers called from a particular telephone line. The term has come to include any device or program that performs similar functions to an original pen register, including programs monitoring Internet communications.The United States statutes...

  • Data Retention Directive
    Data Retention Directive
    The Data Retention Directive, more formally "Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications...

  • Interception Modernisation Programme
    Interception Modernisation Programme
    The Interception Modernisation Programme is a UK government initiative to extend the government's capabilities for intercepting and storing communications data...

  • Mastering the Internet
    Mastering the Internet
    "Mastering the Internet" is reportedly a massive UK government mass surveillance project led by the British communications intelligence agency GCHQ, with a budget of over £1 billion...

  • NSA Call Database
    NSA call database
    The United States' National Security Agency maintains a database containing hundreds of billions of records of telephone calls made by U.S...

  • CSE and Communications data
  • Titan traffic database
    Titan traffic database
    The Titan traffic database is a database established by the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment where call detail records of telephony and internet traffic and transaction data concerning international telecommonications are stored...

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