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Pettabytes are produced and the capacity for yottabytes are planned for the Utah facility. (See below for size difference between petabytes and yottabytes.)

So, the capacity to store everything exists/will exist soon, and the track record says what corrupt powers can do, they do do. Subtract from that what they cannot have access to.

How much information is there in the world? This paper makes various estimates and compares the answers with the estimates of disk and tape sales, and size of all human memory. There may be a few thousand petabytes [*] of information all told; and the production of tape and disk will reach that level by the year 2000. So in only a few years, (a) we will be able save everything \- no information will have to be thrown out, and (b) the typical piece of information will never be looked at by a human being. ...This paper was suggested by a query from Glenn Sincerbox of the University of Arizona. http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/ksg97/ksg.html
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NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository Crunchgear ^ | November 1. 2009 | by Devin Coldewey
Posted on Sunday, November 1, 2009 10:06:31 PM by Jet Jaguar
There’s an interesting article in the current New York Review of books (predictably, a book review) detailing the history of the National Security Agency, that shadowy power-behind-the-power to which we surrender much of our privacy. That in itself is interesting, but I found the introduction a bit shocking: the NSA is constructing a datacenter in the Utah desert that they project will be storing yottabytes of surveillance data. And what is a yottabyte? I’m glad you asked.
There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. In other words, a yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB. Are you paranoid yet?

Pettabytes are produced and the capacity for yottabytes are planned for the Utah facility.

This is very interesting. I'm aware of the fact that this site is under construction. And speculation that it could store EVERYTHING is certainly well placed. The COULD YOU part of the equation is indeed at least under construction.

But don't forget: The world is a big place. Collecting and storing the rest of worlds phone calls, e-mails, twitter postings, Facebook posts and the rest is a daunting task even if you assume that the law would be honored and U.S. citizens would be exempt for the most part from that collection.

I'm not disagreeing with those who have legitimate privacy concerns. I have them too. To the extent that we can these guys definitely need watching. A little info on just what this Utah facility will and will not be doing is appropriate. As long as we don't let the Muslim Brotherhood and the rest learn too much.

In the meantime I'm waiting to buy one of those Yottabyte hard drives so I can store all the FR posts.;)