PRISM && Excited Guardianista

[Caspar Bowden (lists)]

These may explain why it's not old hat (search my name since January if 
want more)

http://euobserver.com/justice/118857
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/january/eu-urged-to-scrap-use-of-personal-data-measures-for-cloud-computing-amid-us-surveillance-concerns/

NSA have confirmed the story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22809541

Caspar

On 06/07/13 12:22, Roland Perry wrote:
> In article <B71A727C-0740-4AE2-86D8-8AC7EA22E896 at batten.eu.org>, Ian 
> Batten <igb at batten.eu.org> writes
>> The Graun are very excited about: 
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
>>
>> The most interesting thing to me is that he slides they have say it 
>> has a budget of $20m per year.
>
> This story resurfaces every year pretty much. Must be that time again.
>
> Last year, one version of the story estimated that they've amassed 20 
> trillion data records. At $20m that would be a bargain.
>
> On the other hand "Wired" seems to think the budget for the latest 
> data centre was $2bn.