samedi 22 juin 2013

Big brother is in Utah

Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, is he a traitor or an hero? He escaped to Hong Kong after having leaked some classified documents and is acting, he says, as a whistleblower to warn US citizens about activities from the NSA, an agency which is a pqart of the CIA.
In Bluffdale, a little city of Utah State, several miles from Salt Lake City, in the middle of "nowhere",  the Utah Data Center will open this fall. Its goal is to store extremely large amounts of data ; those data could be contents of private mails, cell phone calls, internet searches as well as all sorts of personal data trails (parking receipts, bookstore purchases...). Verizon and Comcast, the providers of telecommunications in the US, signed a, no more secret now, phone program to deliver to the center all sorts of informations about their clients. So, watch out...


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