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midnight

(26,624 posts)
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 11:59 AM Jul 2012

NSA whistleblower: They’re assembling information on every U.S. citizen

Last edited Sat Jul 14, 2012, 01:41 PM - Edit history (1)

"NSA whistleblower William Binney was interviewed by internet journalist Geoff Shively at the HOPE Number 9 hackers conference in New York on Friday.

Binney, who resigned from the NSA in 2001 over its domestic surveillance program, had just delivered a keynote speech in which he revealed what Shively called “evidence which we have not seen until this point.”

“They’re pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country … and assembling that information,” Binney explained. “So government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it’s a very dangerous process.” He estimated that something like 1.6 billion logs have been processed since 2001.


Shively and livestreamer Tim Pool, who was filming the interview, concluded by noting that videos of Binney’s keynote address will be available shortly." http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/13/nsa-whistleblower-theyre-assembling-information-on-every-u-s-citizen/


Last year an instillation creating jobs in Nevada to store lots of data was reported... At this link there is a video...

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MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. This really isn't a "politics" topic. Also, your link needs to be moved away from the quote mark. nt
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 12:02 PM
Jul 2012

MADem

(135,425 posts)
10. Read the SOP for this forum. They aren't MY guidelines.
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 11:39 PM
Jul 2012
A forum for general discussion of United States politics, campaigns, and elections, at all levels of government in 2012.


Your OP has nothing to do with politics, campaigns or elections in 2012.

midnight

(26,624 posts)
7. I was looking for the Nevada facility that will house this data, when I stumbled upon this newest
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 01:31 PM
Jul 2012

move by apple...

Apple confirms Reno, Nevada as the site of its next U.S. data center pending tax break deals
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 · 4:52 pm · 32 Comments


“Apple today confirmed it is considering Reno as the site of its next data center,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD.
““We hope to build Apple’s next data center in Reno to support Apple’s iTunes Store, App Store and incredibly popular iCloud services,” Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet told AllThingsD,” Paczkowski reports. “‘If approved, this project would expand our presence in Nevada and create hundreds of construction jobs over the next year, plus permanent jobs at the data center which will add to our existing total of nearly 400 employees in the state.’”

Paczkowski reports, “If the deal is approved, Apple could break ground on a new data center as soon as August. Once it’s finished and online, the company will have major data facilities in Newark, Calif.; Maiden, N.C., and soon Prineville, Ore., as well.”

Read more in the full article here.

Brian Duggan reports for The Reno Gazette Journal, “Apple is planning on opening a data center to house its cloud computing service east of Sparks as well as a business and purchasing center in downtown Reno, part of a $1 billion investment the company plans to spend in Northern Nevada over the next 10 years.”

“The deal includes $89 million tax abatements from the city, county and state over the next decade, effectively reducing the company’s tax burden by 79 percent, according to an analysis of the project by Phoenix-based Applied Economics,” Duggan reports. “About 82 percent of those tax breaks will come from local governments and the rest from the state. Those tax breaks include a reduction on 85 percent of the personal property tax for 10 to 30 years. If all local governments approve the deal today and tomorrow — including the Washoe County School District and the Reno City Council — Apple’s effective sales tax rate will be less than 1 percent. In all, local and state governments would collect about $16 million in tax revenue from Apple over the next 10 years.”http://macdailynews.com/2012/06/26/apple-confirms-reno-nevada-as-the-site-of-its-next-u-s-data-center-pending-tax-break-deals/

Amonester

(11,541 posts)
11. I read somewhere they've been doing it since the end of WWII.
Sun Jul 15, 2012, 12:39 AM
Jul 2012

And not just in the U.S. but also in Europe (from the U.K.).

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