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How much data of a user get recorded by service providers?

If someone from India has optical fiber connection internet for windows10 PC and mobile phone 4g network provider’s internet for android cell phone using 4g sim card, now sometimes he uses PC’s OFC internet in mobile and mobile’s 4g internet in PC using wifi hotspot and both PC and mobile phone’s internet/network service provider companies are different but constant, and he uses 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 as DNS server instead of ISP’s dns server for PC, and he saves all login credential on Edge browser on both PC and cell phone and two devices’ browsers are synced and he uses autofill during login in a website on Edge browser, then -

1)- Does/can ISP store all his browsing history ? also can/does ISP see/know what he’s doing inside a specific website like what he’s searching on google and which file he is storing in google drive, which files he is downloading, like can they know the stored/downloaded file’s name and content inside? Can/do they see his login credentials for a website? Can/do they read my emails? If they can then for how long do they keep the data stored before erasing completely? Does law allow them to do all of those and does law allow police to get those data from ISP and how much police can ask for?

2)- Does/can network service provider of a cell phone record all the voice calls/messages/whats app chats of a user? If so then for how long do they keep the data stored before erasing completely? Does law allow them to do that and does law allow police to get those data from ISP and how much police can ask for?

N.B. During the occurrence of all those above said events the user had no police case against him and Police was not trying to do anything at all against/about him and police did not even know his existence at all as he doesn’t have any criminal record in the past at all. But only days later of those events for the first time in his life police may start to try to acquire those above said datas which occurred in the past.


N.B. Please don't remove my post because of the off topic part about law, please answer only about the tech part if the law part can’t be answered here. Sorry for many questions at the same time, but those are so tightly related that I could not find a way to ask them separately.
 
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You're using both an ISP's broadband connectivity and a carrier's cellular connectivity for online access, the point being both are just two ways to connect to the same Internet. (your broadband is a wired connection, your cellular service a wireless connection) -- i.e. whether you use a web browser to check your email on a PC or you use an email app on a mobile device, both are connecting to the same online email service. Either way your ISP is tracking and monitoring you online usage, and your carrier is doing the same. Using Cloudfare's DNS service only adds some privacy on your part but that alone doesn't prevent you from being data mined extensively. (DNS is basically just a web site identifier service, it's not some magic that makes your online presence safe and secure).
As for your questions, 1 and 2, they're difficult to determine. You have very specific questions that involve a very complicated mix of variables. You need to research your government's established rules and regulations for Internet providers, along with the Terms of Service for your particular ISP and your particular cellular service. It's going to be a daunting project -- every government has its own level of oversight regarding public and private services, and your ISP and your carrier may or may not implement the same amount of regulation to user data retention. Some may keep collected user info indefinitely, some only anonymously for a few days.
 
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You're using both an ISP's broadband connectivity and a carrier's cellular connectivity for online access, the point being both are just two ways to connect to the same Internet. (your broadband is a wired connection, your cellular service a wireless connection) -- i.e. whether you use a web browser to check your email on a PC or you use an email app on a mobile device, both are connecting to the same online email service. Either way your ISP is tracking and monitoring you online usage, and your carrier is doing the same. Using Cloudfare's DNS service only adds some privacy on your part but that alone doesn't prevent you from being data mined extensively. (DNS is basically just a web site identifier service, it's not some magic that makes your online presence safe and secure).
As for your questions, 1 and 2, they're difficult to determine. You have very specific questions that involve a very complicated mix of variables. You need to research your government's established rules and regulations for Internet providers, along with the Terms of Service for your particular ISP and your particular cellular service. It's going to be a daunting project -- every government has its own level of oversight regarding public and private services, and your ISP and your carrier may or may not implement the same amount of regulation to user data retention. Some may keep collected user info indefinitely, some only anonymously for a few days.
Tyvm. But Does/can network service provider / telecom of a cell phone record all the voice calls of a user even if any law enforcement did not ask them to do any such thing against that user? If so then for how long do they keep the data stored before erasing completely?
 
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Tyvm. But Does/can network service provider / telecom of a cell phone record all the voice calls of a user even if any law enforcement did not ask them to do any such thing against that user? If so then for how long do they keep the data stored before erasing completely?
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I worked for BT for several years, and I know that telcos such as BT do not routinely record phone calls. Not unless there's a specific request by the police, and they must have a warrant. This is in the UK, other countries and jurisdictions maybe different.

Of course there are things like ECHELON, PRISM, and TEMPORA, so could be nothing is really private from law enforcements and govt TLAs.
 
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