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Re:US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies ... by hindsightbias on Thursday June 06, 2013 @10:51PM (#5836892)
> NTSB is a big bureaucracy

Of 400 employees.

If PRISM only really costs $20M/year (per the slide deck), it has to be the greatest bang-for-buck IT project in Federal history. I'd let it go if we can get rid of all those multi-billion satellite projects and 3/4ths of the staff.

Damage to perceived 'rights' is OK, as long as it is done efficiently.

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Re:US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies ... by adventured on Friday June 07, 2013 @01:08AM (#5837347)
It clearly doesn't only cost $20 million. That would be ignoring the multi-billion dollar Utah data center required to store / analyze everything. The bandwidth / networking capacity alone would cost more than that to setup and operate.

They are getting a discount in this case however, as companies are doing a lot of the work for them.

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Re:US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies ... by sillysaurus on Friday June 07, 2013 @12:32AM (#5837238)
Damage to perceived 'rights' is OK, as long as it is done efficiently.

What do you mean?

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