Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center,
[1] is a
data storage facility for the
United States Intelligence Community designed to store data estimated to be on the order of
exabytes or larger.
[2] Its purpose is to support the
Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative .... completed in May 2014 at a cost of $1.5 billion.
[5]
The "massive data repository" is designed to cope with the large increase in digital data that has accompanied the rise of the global internet.
[6]
Purpose
The data center has the capability 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 ..."one of the biggest misconceptions about NSA is that we are unlawfully listening in on, or reading emails of, U.S. citizens. This is simply not the case."
[4]
In 2009, officials at the
United States Department of Justice acknowledged that the NSA had engaged in large-scale overcollection of domestic communications in excess of the
United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's authority, but claimed that the acts were unintentional ...