This is completely fucking ridiculous.<p><i>Of course</i> Google's privacy policy says they can store that information. That's why I can go to google.com/voice and get a comprehensive, time-ordered, millisecond-precision (if you poke around the network tab a bit - I forgot that epoch values started "12" back then!) list of<p>> your phone number, calling-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls, duration of calls, SMS routing information and types of calls.<p>that I have made over the past 6 years, 10 months, and 20-something days.<p>This is a service they provided, that I'm using, if the data were not there, I would have gotten rid of my gvoice number, found a service that preserved my data like any self-respecting service provider (I'm really at a loss here - is this <i>not</i> available on iOS?) and complained loudly that Google Caused Data Loss For Users and should probably get hit with a lawsuit for damages.<p>I cannot believe how one-sided the discussion here is.<p>The claim that GOOG is capturing all this data on all calls and texts on all android devices is -completely- unsubstantiated. There's one link to a german-language blog, whose (admittedly, Google-) translated claim seems to be that they tested - a - phone. One. With phone calls. Did they test SMS too? Was there a network connection to google's servers? The omission could just be the translation, but right now I think this is actually a story with 181 comments about, at most, a phone that also has hangouts, that pings the server to tell google to mark their user as being in a call.<p>Completely ridiculous.<p>My only affiliation with Google is as a user.<p>Oh, and let's not forget here, that if Google <i>were</i> trying to subtly reinterpret "your use of our services" as "we capture everything from all Android devices", why on earth would they do a time-synchronized, easily-reproducible log when the call starts? (And how would they already have the call duration, blah blah blah at that time?) I can assure you, they're quite familiar with queuing data on the device to be sent later.<p>The most irritating comment thread I've read in a long time. None of what is being claimed is even remotely cogent, on the <i>face</i> of it, and the reaction is just an endless woe-is-me of "what did you expect, we all saw this coming, what can ya do, the companies these days, they're just not like they used to be" I mean, is this a brexit hangover or what?<p>Just sprinkle on a little "the NSA does exactly thing tho omg" and "metadata===murder" (yup, I think of you as js fanboys, that's how bad it is) just and... yeah, the expletive is necessary. Completely fucking ridiculous.