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This is just scary as hell! Just imagine how the government will know EVERYTHING about you. You will be recorded. For good.

"On a remote edge of Utah’s dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America’s equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges’s “Library of Babel,” a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world’s knowledge is stored, but not a single word is understood. At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.

Unlike Borges’s “labyrinth of letters,” this library expects few visitors. It’s being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency—which is primarily responsible for “signals intelligence,” the collection and analysis of various forms of communication—to house trillions of phone calls, e-mail messages, and data trails: Web searches, parking receipts, bookstore visits, and other digital “pocket litter.” "

“the data volumes are increasing with a projection that sensor data volume could potentially increase to the level of Yottabytes by 2015.”[1] Roughly equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, numbers beyond Yottabytes haven’t yet been named.

NSA’s Yottabytes of Data « memoirs on a rainy day

Also The Library of Congress records EVERYTHING you say on Twittr in case you don't know.

It's just mind boggling.
 
This is just scary as hell! Just imagine how the government will know EVERYTHING about you. You will be recorded. For good.

"On a remote edge of Utah’s dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America’s equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges’s “Library of Babel,” a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world’s knowledge is stored, but not a single word is understood. At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.

Unlike Borges’s “labyrinth of letters,” this library expects few visitors. It’s being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency—which is primarily responsible for “signals intelligence,” the collection and analysis of various forms of communication—to house trillions of phone calls, e-mail messages, and data trails: Web searches, parking receipts, bookstore visits, and other digital “pocket litter.” "

“the data volumes are increasing with a projection that sensor data volume could potentially increase to the level of Yottabytes by 2015.”[1] Roughly equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, numbers beyond Yottabytes haven’t yet been named.

NSA’s Yottabytes of Data « memoirs on a rainy day

Also The Library of Congress records EVERYTHING you say on Twittr in case you don't know.

It's just mind boggling.

Nothing new, Google has been doing this for years now.

Yiz
 
corporations have been doing this way before you were born.
 
:hmm: What about Henry Ford? He didn't want his workers to give in to vices even when they weren't at work. See chapter 4.

I don't think he was an isolated example.

:lol: A controlling and paternalistic employer is hardly the same as the OP.
 
:lol: A controlling and paternalistic employer is hardly the same as the OP.

the government is:

1. working with companies (such as facebook) that collect personal information
2. not even considering about improving the privacy laws like the European's Privacy Law

the biggest thing that I'm deeply puzzled about is.... why isn't government doing anything about companies requesting for our SSN? It should be illegal. SSN is not designed to be used as an identifier for an individual. It's strictly a tax ID number for government. That's why colleges have dropped this and started using generated ID number for students.
 
anybody forgot about PeopleSoft? :io:
 
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