Where are these super servers storing all this information?
Really is there enough memory in the universe to store all the data?
One was just built in Utah. I doubt we have the capability that the FBI agent claims.
Voice compresses very well - it's not music. Gaps between words take almost nothing to store, and much of the dynamic range can get compressed away without losing the meaning of the content. Further, speech recognition can be used to create a searchable index so that they can find specific calls and then pull up the recording itself to review further.
Echelon, I think it's called.
Government has been building huge data storage systems for many years.
Utah.