11-23-2021, 07:18 PM
The Feds have been in bed with Big Telecom since the 1950s when they had access to every Ma Bell call. AT&T now provides the Feds unfettered access to multiple communication hubs including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington D.C.
The NSA has a data collection center in Bluffdale, Utah that has an estimated 2-3 Yottabytes of storage capacity. This is in addition to the hundreds of acres of servers operating in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
A joint US/British program named PRISM currently mines data from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple traffic.
The Feds have been watching and listening for 70+ years, and the Patriot Act made it much easier to do with less bureaucratic hurdles.
So rest assured Chas, they are collecting everything that they can get.
The NSA has a data collection center in Bluffdale, Utah that has an estimated 2-3 Yottabytes of storage capacity. This is in addition to the hundreds of acres of servers operating in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
A joint US/British program named PRISM currently mines data from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple traffic.
The Feds have been watching and listening for 70+ years, and the Patriot Act made it much easier to do with less bureaucratic hurdles.
So rest assured Chas, they are collecting everything that they can get.