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Originally Posted by Undertoad
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I suspect that this is exactly the kind of thing Sen Ron Wyden
was referring to in the YouTube video posted above.
.. not just PRISM, as we are hearing about it now,
but it's correlation with other virtual data of businesses, etc.
NY Times
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Because of smartphones, tablets, social media sites,
e-mail and other forms of digital communications,
the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data daily,
according to I.B.M.
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Ummmm.... lets see now.
That would be 2.5 x 10^21 bytes (letters or characters)
That would be 2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000
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With little public debate, the N.S.A. has been undergoing rapid expansion
in order to exploit the mountains of new data being created each day.
The government has poured billions of dollars into the agency over the last decade,
building a one-million-square-foot fortress in the mountains of Utah,
apparently to store huge volumes of personal data indefinitely.
It created intercept stations across the country, according to former industry and intelligence officials,
and helped build one of the world’s fastest computers to crack the codes that protect information.
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When separate streams of data are integrated into large databases
— matching, for example, time and location data from cellphones
with credit card purchases or E-ZPass use —
intelligence analysts are given a mosaic of a person’s life
that would never be available from simply listening to their conversations.
Just four data points about the location and time of a mobile phone call,
a study published in Nature found, make it possible to identify the caller 95 percent of the time.
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