In light of the Office of the Ombudsman's call for telecommunications companies to hold text messages for up to one year due to a growing number of Official Information Act requests, privacy expert Gehan Gunasekara of Auckland University is pointing to a global trend toward storing such information, TVNZ reports. "E-mails are already kept," he said. "Many people still believe e-mails are private, but they are not. Your employer and a whole lot of people could access your e-mail." When it comes to texts, he said, people need to realize that they are not like a phone conversation. "You hit the delete key and you think it's gone," Gunasekara said, "but it will stay there."
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