Privacy - cell vs. landline [telecom]

A novelist friend asks:

Is it true that landl "Depends "This'd be random data-gathering."

So...what do y'all think? Is landline metadata more protected by virtue of the historical utility nature of the traditional landline carriers? Or less stored, since such usage is metered less? ISTR something called "MUDs", which I thought was Municipal Unit Details or some such, but Googling doesn't find it, so maybe that was from fiction.

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Posted 5 years ago by Phil Smith III in General Telecommunications Forum

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