Posted on 06/06/2013 3:45:54 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.
The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before. Its establishment in 2007 and six years of exponential growth took place beneath the surface of a roiling debate over the boundaries of surveillance and privacy. Even late last year, when critics of the foreign intelligence statute argued for changes, the only members of Congress who know about PRISM were bound by oaths of office to hold their tongues.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
You know that Holder and co. is looking at this information so they can spy on the Tea Party and other such groups.
It could very well be related.
From concept to starting the building of it could be two years... that puts it at 2007 as mentioned in post #1.
To: Red in Blue PA
I wonder if it’s connected to this?
Privacy of World Citizens Wiped Out by USA Canada Free Press ^ | Friday,May 31,2013 | Judi McLeod
Posted on Friday,May 31,2013 9:19:32 AM by Sheapdog
As of yesterday you are a Citizen of the World with no Privacy—no matter in which country you are located.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony invite,sent to a select group of Utah politicians and dignitaries for the massive Utah Data Centre in Bluffdale,Utah was as mysterious as the facility itself. Canada Free Press (CFP) could find no pictures,no accounts of the event anywhere on the Internet today even though an earlier media release said reporters would be there.
The bigger-than-the-CIA National Security Agency (NSA) had previously stated that the facility would start operations in September,2013.
Why should this event mean anything to you and yours?
“While the NSA has offered no specifics about the Utah Data Center’s operations,a 2012 Wired magazine article,citing former intelligence and NSA officials,said computers at the data center will collect electronic information—from emails to cellphone records to purchasing receipts—from all over the world—,store it and look for threatening patterns.” (emphasis CFP’s).
With the privacy of every man,woman and child on earth now ‘deleted’,as far as is known not one country has moved to litigate against NASA and the largest spy center known to mankind.
The $2-billion,1.5-million-square-ft. facility on the outskirts of Salt Lake City in Bluffdale will store 1 trillion terabytes of information,a sort of computer that swallowed the world.
Building started back in 2009 when the Obama administration approached MIDA (Military Installation Development Authority) to help build utilities for the Utah Data Center. MIDA created a project area and had the land annexed into Bluffdale. The NSA paid MIDA for all utility construction. (Salt Lake Tribune).
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/55583
24 posted on Thu Jun 06 2013 18:06:25 GMT-0500 (CDT) by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse]
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
in before Bush’s faul.. too late..
I’m still looking for the best solution to keep my GMail account and mitigate their blanket snooping but, i use these two for IM and GDrive.
For instant messaging consider:
http://www.pidgin.im/
http://pidgin-encrypt.sourceforge.net/
For online drives consider:
http://boxcryptor.com/
That explains Roberts.
I-M-P-E-A-C-H
Oh my , the beast. The gaint data centers nick....think about it.
When who had the House and the Senate?
No doubt, its unconstitutional. Started by a President that some trusted. Put on steroids for nefarious purposes by a Usurper that none of us here trust. But another concern is what can be done with all those records and transaction info when the NSA’s servers get hacked into by online crooks? Even if the country survives Obummer, its only a matter of time that all this cyber data ends up being another asset to steal.
Petraeus, Roberts, Bohner, on and on...
Conspiracy theories exist because there are conspiracies...
I wondered when I read this if this is how anonymous gets its information. Either hacked into an exploit in the monitoring systems. Or, just sent a datastream from a likeminded nsa employee.
Bush, again.
5.56mm
I keep wondering whether this could happen. I know, from what I read, that there is a growing and festering antipathy towards the federal government. If this is so, some event, perhaps related to intrusions into people's private lives such as outlined here, might set off episodes of isolated violence and gosh knows what could follow.
If I recall correctly, he got his start in the CIA.
Oh cripes, do you really think a program like this operates with Congressional approval? Really?
Nice try, 0bama.. Oh wait. This tactic will probably work.
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