Inside America's $1.9billion data mine
Jun 8, 2013 15:57:11 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Jun 8, 2013 15:57:11 GMT -5
Inside America's $1.9billion data mine: How all your private details will soon be stored in this vast NSA nerve center in Utah Valley
Government will complete its data storing facility in Utah this October
Concerns about what personal information will be stored there as it emerged the government has been extracting data from big companies
By Lydia Warren
PUBLISHED: 07:40 EST, 7 June 2013 | UPDATED: 12:48 EST, 7 June 2013
The personal data and private online conversations that the National Security Administration is accused of mining could be stashed in a one million square-foot, $1.9 billion facility in the Utah Valley.
Concerns over what the government will store at the Utah Data Center have been reinvigorated by the revelation that U.S. intelligence agencies have been extracting audio, video, photos, e-mails, documents and other information to track people's movements and contacts.
Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, AOL and the lesser known Internet company PalTalk are all involved with the PRISM program, which the government insists is for national security.
The Utah Data Center which is being constructed on Camp Williams on the Salt Lake-Utah County line will be completed in October - but officials have been tight-lipped about what will be stored there.
Full story with a lot of pictures at the link:
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337420/Utah-Data-Center-The-million-square-foot-Utah-data-mining-facility-built-NSA.html#ixzz2Vf0epmJl
Government will complete its data storing facility in Utah this October
Concerns about what personal information will be stored there as it emerged the government has been extracting data from big companies
By Lydia Warren
PUBLISHED: 07:40 EST, 7 June 2013 | UPDATED: 12:48 EST, 7 June 2013
The personal data and private online conversations that the National Security Administration is accused of mining could be stashed in a one million square-foot, $1.9 billion facility in the Utah Valley.
Concerns over what the government will store at the Utah Data Center have been reinvigorated by the revelation that U.S. intelligence agencies have been extracting audio, video, photos, e-mails, documents and other information to track people's movements and contacts.
Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, AOL and the lesser known Internet company PalTalk are all involved with the PRISM program, which the government insists is for national security.
The Utah Data Center which is being constructed on Camp Williams on the Salt Lake-Utah County line will be completed in October - but officials have been tight-lipped about what will be stored there.
Full story with a lot of pictures at the link:
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337420/Utah-Data-Center-The-million-square-foot-Utah-data-mining-facility-built-NSA.html#ixzz2Vf0epmJl
