William Binney: NSA Records and Stores 80% of All US Audio Calls 278
stephendavion sends a report at The Guardian about remarks from whistleblower William Binney, who left the NSA after its move toward overreaching surveillance following the September 11th attacks. Binney says, "At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the U.S. The NSA lies about what it stores." He added, "The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control, but I’m a little optimistic with some recent Supreme Court decisions, such as law enforcement mostly now needing a warrant before searching a smartphone." One of Binney's biggest concerns about government-led surveillance is its lack of oversight: "The FISA court has only the government’s point of view. There are no other views for the judges to consider. There have been at least 15-20 trillion constitutional violations for U.S. domestic audiences and you can double that globally."
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NSA has purchased enough storage for this apparently.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor... [theguardian.com]
Archive.org has estimated the amount of memory required to store all phonecalls.
http://blog.archive.org/2013/0... [archive.org]
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Yes, EMC.
Oddly enough, the correct answer was down modded to 0. Good to see that the NSA is actively working to keep the details of their operations in the dark.
For those of you who want to get in on the publicly sanitized version of the technology, have a look at..
http://www.emc.com/campaign/gl... [emc.com]
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Re:Why 80% (Score:5, Informative)
Incidentally, didn't Obama announce some changes he was going to make to fix the NSA?
This is the guy who disingenuously said "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls" [theguardian.com], knowing the monitoring is done by speech recognition and only a tiny fraction needs to be listened to by humans, and who appointed Clapper to establish an NSA review board [commondreams.org], knowing he had already lied to Congress to protect the NSA.