US agency would need a facility the size of Europe to store physical copies of information it will hold
Steve Watson
A stunning info-graphic put together by a German data company reveals just how expansive the NSA’s data retention program has become.
In the wake of the Snowden revelations, eyes have been trained on the NSA and its almost completed new facility in the Utah desert.
the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program has grown in gargantuan proportions and now intercepts 1.7 billion US electronic communications every single day. Those communications will soon all be funneled through the top secret $2 billion spy center, which the NSA has refused to provide Congress with details of.
Comparing the NSA to the East German Stasi, experts at Open Data City in Berlin, decided to visualize the scope of both spy agencies, to make a point of how much further advanced the NSA is.
The shaded area on the left shows how much physical space the Stasi encompassed in Berlin, then compares the space the NSA would need if it had physical copies of all the information it is capable of storing...
Link to graphic and the rest of the article:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/info-graphic-nsa-is-a-billion-times-more-expansive-than-the-stasi.html
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