Telefónicas have the obligation to attend to the prosecutor’s offices, Telcel answers to the NYT

2023-11-10 21:48:23

The spokesperson for the main mobile phone company in the country, Telcel, owned by magnate Carlos Slim, reported that it, like all operators, has the obligation to provide information to the prosecutor’s offices when they request it; The clarification was made without assuming or directly denying the information disseminated by The New York Times about the surveillance of politicians and officials by the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City (FGJ-CDMX).

“In relation to the information released by @nytimes, I tell you that @Telcel and all operators are obliged, based on the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law, among others, to provide information to the Prosecutor’s Offices,” Renato published Flores, company spokesperson, on platform X, formerly Twitter.

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The New York Times published that the FGJ-CDMX requested from Telcel the telephone records of politicians and officials, including the licensed mayor of Benito Juárez, in Mexico City, Santiago Taboada (PAN); senators Lilly Téllez (Morena, later PAN) and Higinio Martínez Miranda (Morena) and Horacio Duarte (Morena), Secretary of Government in the State of Mexico.

Flores explained that in accordance with articles 189 and 190 of the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law, concessionaires must provide the information that the prosecutor’s offices require.

According to the articles stated, “telecommunication concessionaires and, where applicable, the authorized and providers of application and content services are obliged to comply with any written, founded and reasoned order from the competent authority in the terms established by the laws.”

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At the same time, they must “collaborate with the security, prosecution and administration of justice authorities, in the geographical location, in real time, of mobile communication equipment, in the terms established by law. Any omission or disregard for these provisions will be sanctioned by the authority, in the terms of the provisions of the applicable criminal legislation.”

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