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		ISL on June 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated But how many phone numbers do they have the capacity to closely scrutinize?

nano111 on June 17, 2013 [–]

Soon, they will apparently add yottabytes of storage with their Utah's data center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center).. that doesn't say how much they can analyze but probably many more then 300.. (1 yottabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000GB)

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