US ramps up the collection of personal data

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The activists of a free and open online space have reacted with outrage this week on news that the US is trying to build a huge data storage center to accommodate the ever-increasing amount of personal data collected from citizens every day.

new development is the pet project of the US National Security Agency (NSA), which has broad powers that allow it to access personal data without permission and store it indefinitely. Estimates indicate that the data center will have sufficient capacity to store more than 100 years of communications value worldwide. The new center is the culmination of a month of worrying revelations about online surveillance policies of America, with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) expressing concerns over the amount of data being systematically harvested from machinery innocent users.

unreasonably electronic surveillance has allegedly been on the rise in the US for some time, with a large number of public institutions, including the FBI and the police collection, storage and sharing data without permission. Figures seen by the ACLU indicate that Americans were subjected to several forms of electronic surveillance for the past two years than for the whole of the previous decade, in which important privacy issues online light.

A number of public safety laws were introduced by the government to expand their surveillance powers, with figures showing that "steals emails and stores 1.7 billion calls, texts and other electronic communications "NSA every day. This large-scale data collection seems to be both excessive and unjustified, with a former NSA employee claiming that the anti-terrorism legislation is being used to spy on ordinary citizens.

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