[Times-UK] Sean O'Neill and Richard Ford - The huge growth in Internet telephone traffic is jeopardizing the capability of police to investigate crime, senior sources have told The Times. As more and more phone calls are routed over the web - using software such as Skype - police are losing the ability to track who has called whom, from where, and for how long. Unlike phone companies, which retain call data for billing purposes, Internet call companies have no reason to keep the material.
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