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Does the NSA have the storage capacity to hold onto everyone in the world’s emails, texts, and all other communications forever? At some point you’d need an ent
by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Does the NSA have the storage capacity to hold onto everyone in the world’s emails, texts, and all other communications forever? At some point you’d need an entire government AWS, the costs of that alone seem like they’d be higher than their budget by an order of magnitude.
I agree about the social credit score, we don’t know the fields they use (unlike FICO) so it probably does include private communications.
- titzer 3y agoI don't know, but the Utah Data Center[1] has been estimated at 3 to 12 exabytes. I know for a fact that at least one $megacorp has worldwide storage larger than that. That seems large enough to comfortably store all human-generated text/audio communications. Who knows how much realtime camera footage they are sucking down; that seems like it would be the biggest amount of data. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
- legitster 3y agoThis is kinda where the "big data" conspiracies lose me. I maintain databases for a living, and the thing I constantly going around explaining to people is that giant piles of unstructured data does not actually correlate to intelligence. Even if you theoretically were able to collect the voice recording of every human conversation happening between every human on Earth, actually parsing or using that information proactively is just not feasible. So I think people are being a bit unrealistic about the extent the agencies can even use the massive amounts of data they have.
- DANmode 3y agoAren't intelligence agencies one of the biggest if not biggest AWS customers?