https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-nsas-secret-tool-for-mapping-your-soc... Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network Barton Gellman 05.24.2020 07:00 AM Edward Snowden revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew. An integrated map, presented graphically, would eventually allow the NSA to display nearly anyone’s movements and communications on a global scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°25'19.0"N 111°56'07.0"W https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bamford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_data_centers https://www.qwant.com/?q=amazon+data+centers https://www.qwant.com/?q=facebook+data+centers https://www.qwant.com/?q=microsoft+data+centers The data center is able to process "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all types of personal data trails — parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'." "What if a small group of citizens had secret access to the telephone logs and social networks of government officials? How might that privileged knowledge affect their power to shape events? How might their interactions change if they possessed the means to humiliate and destroy the careers of the persons in power? Capability matters." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/preemption/nsa.html https://mil-embedded.com/4755-how-nsa-processes-all-that-intelligence-data/ https://wikimapia.org/680144/Tordella-Supercomputer-Facility https://www.google.com/maps/place/39°07'03.0"N+76°46'07.0"W https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/secure-national-security-agency-nsa-sit... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8X8w8a4f4 https://web.archive.org/web/20091122112949/http://74.39.182.56/Portals/0/For... https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publica... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-amazons-collaboration_b_4824854 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TZ_CNBZD0 GovCorp