NSA's phone records and data collection
The revelations that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records at Verizon and snooping on the digital communications stored by nine major Internet services illustrate how aggressively personal data is being collected and analyzed.
NSA's phone records and data collection
This undated photo made available by Google shows colorful pipes sending and receiving water for cooling Google's data center in Douglass County, Ga. On the right is a G-Bike, which the company says is the vehicle of choice for employees to travel around the vast centers. (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou)
NSA's phone records and data collection
This undated photo provided by Facebook shows the server room at the company's data center in Prineville, Ore. The revelations that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records at Verizon and snooping on the digital communications stored by nine major Internet services illustrate how aggressively personal data is being collected and analyzed. (AP Photo/Facebook, Alan Brandt)
NSA's phone records and data collection
This undated photo made available by Google shows the campus-network room at a data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Routers and switches allow Google's data centers to talk to each other. The fiber cables run along the yellow cable trays near the ceiling. (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou)
NSA's phone records and data collection
Ground lever view of Utah's NSA Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Friday, June 7, 2013. President Barack Obama vigorously defended sweeping secret surveillance into America's phone records and foreigners' Internet use, declaring "we have to make choices as a society." It was revealed late Wednesday that the National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone customers. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
NSA's phone records and data collection
Ground lever view of Utah's NSA Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Friday, June 7, 2013. President Barack Obama vigorously defended sweeping secret surveillance into America's phone records and foreigners' Internet use, declaring "we have to make choices as a society." It was revealed late Wednesday that the National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone customers. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
NSA's phone records and data collection
Ground lever view of Utah's NSA Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Friday, June 7, 2013. President Barack Obama vigorously defended sweeping secret surveillance into America's phone records and foreigners' Internet use, declaring "we have to make choices as a society." It was revealed late Wednesday that the National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone customers. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
NSA's phone records and data collection
Ground lever view of Utah's NSA Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Friday, June 7, 2013. President Barack Obama vigorously defended sweeping secret surveillance into America's phone records and foreigners' Internet use, declaring "we have to make choices as a society." It was revealed late Wednesday that the National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone customers. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
NSA's phone records and data collection
In this undated photo made available by Google, hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the computer servers into a cooling unit to be recirculated at a Google data center in Mayes County. Okla. The green lights are the server status LEDs reflecting from the front of the servers. (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou)
NSA's phone records and data collection
This photo from Thursday, June 6, 2013, shows an aerial view of the National Security Agency's data center in Bluffdale, Utah. Former NSA employee William Binney told The Associated Press that he estimates the agency collects records on 3 billion phone calls each day. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
NSA's phone records and data collection
In this file photo from April 13, 2010, construction worker Chris Jensen helps build Facebook's first-ever data center in Prineville, Ore. The social networking site chose the high-desert timber town of 10,000 to take advantage of its cool nights and dry air in hopes of making its data center energy efficient. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
NSA's phone records and data collection
In this undated photo made available by Google, the sun sets over Google's data center in Saint Ghislain, Belgium. (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou)
NSA's phone records and data collection
This undated photo made available by Google shows failed drives that are destroyed at a data center in St. Ghislain, Belgium. Google says it destroys malfunctioning storage drives on site to protect user data. (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou)
NSA's phone records and data collection
This undated photo made available by Google shows backup tapes stored at a data center in Berkeley County, S.C. Each tape has a unique barcode so that the company's robotic system can locate the right one. (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou)
NSA's phone records and data collection
This undated photo made available by Google shows cables that the company organizes by color at a data center in The Dalles, Ore. According to the company, this can make things less technical: "Hand me a blue one." (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou)
NSA's phone records and data collection
An aerial view of the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Thursday, June 6, 2013. The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency's need to collect such records, but critics are calling it a huge over-reach. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
NSA's phone records and data collection
An aerial view of the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Thursday, June 6, 2013. The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency's need to collect such records, but critics are calling it a huge over-reach. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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