{"id":17462,"date":"2015-05-29T17:34:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T22:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17462"},"modified":"2015-05-29T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T22:34:31","slug":"the-economist-reviewing-the-surveillance-state-america-argues-anew-over-how-much-snooping-the-nsa-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17462","title":{"rendered":"The Economist: Reviewing the surveillance state: America argues anew over how much snooping the NSA can do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21651817-america-argues-anew-over-how-much-snooping-nsa-can-do-reviewing-surveillance-state?fsrc=nlw%7Cnewe%7C26-05-2015%7C\">Reviewing the surveillance state: America argues anew over how much snooping the NSA can do<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DEEP in the desert in Utah, the National Security Agency (NSA), America\u2019s signals intelligence branch, has built a $1.5 billion centre to scoop up and analyse data from the internet. The building includes its own water-treatment facility, electric substation and 60 back-up diesel generators. It will use over a million gallons of water a day. Its data-storage capacity would be enough, according to one estimate, to store a year of footage of round-the-clock video-recording of over a million people. At this centre, communications from across the globe are tapped directly from the fibre-optic backbone of the internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist: Reviewing the surveillance state: America argues anew over how much snooping the NSA can do: DEEP in the desert in Utah, the National Security Agency (NSA), America\u2019s signals intelligence branch, has built a $1.5 billion centre to scoop &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17462\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17463,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462\/revisions\/17463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}