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We are getting a lot of chatter about foreign companies demanding
contracts with U.S. internet firms that say data must be kept outside
the US. [ url ]
I don't want my data kept in another country. I hope this doesn't kill off our economy more. (why are they even keeping my data.)
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I doubt Amazon.com has signed an agreement to help with spy stuff. [ url=Mysterious Re-Route ]
It's probably due to the winter storms.
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Going overseas would be substantially worse, for two reasons.
1, The NSA operated primarily overseas and explicitly has no restrictions on its intelligence gathering opportunities. No supervision at all
2, other countries are even more blatant about intel activity.
As to why they keep the data, it's valuable. On the Internet, if you're not a customer, you're a product to be sold to the advertisers. Sometimes even if you are a customer.
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You know that game you play on the toilet? New revelations reveal NSA
spying via Angry birds and other mobile apps. [ url=New York Times ]
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Hmmm. There was a time, not so long ago, when our DIRNSA and everyone else in the intel community was very, very concerned with Titles 10 and 50, and the provisions of the 4th Amendment. Read The Shadow Factory for more on that.
My personal opinion: if you think the NSA is the only spy agency on the planet, you don't live on this planet. The number one rule of spies and the organizations that manage the art thereof: don't get caught.
To me (more of my personal opinion), getting flummoxed by the recent 'revelations' is a lot like looking up at a crisp blue sky and remarking in absolute and genuine incredulity, "Blimey! The tittytwats told me it was green! The nerve! Animals, the lot of them!"