The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
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Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, [1] is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes (1 yottabyte = 1 trillion terabytes, or 1 quadrillion gigabytes). [2] [3] Its purpose — as the name implies — is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), though its precise mission is secret. [4] The National Security Agency, which will lead operations at the facility, is the executive agent for the Director of National Intelligence. [5] It is located at Camp Williams, near Bluffdale, Utah, between Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake.
The data center is alleged to be able to capture "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'." [2] According to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the federal government is legally prohibited from collecting, storing, analyzing, or disseminating the content of the communications of US persons, whether inside or outside of the United States, unless authorized by an individual warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. [6]
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