Comment Re:No (Score 1) 342
No sorry, it is not comparable:
1. what happens in the street is public; SMS's are a private communication between 2 parties with an expectation of privacy
2. you are storing images that may be useful because there were crimes; that is the equivalent of someone being wiretapped because there is probable cause. It isn't the government forcing you to store every image in the county in the remote chance there is a crime.
There isn't anything wrong with you installing a camera outside your house; there is something wrong with phone companies storing a log of every single SMS.