It's looking more and more like the 8 major companies involved in this scandal (Apple, Google, Facebook and the others) knowingly colluded with the NSA to spy on you. Of course, they were probably intimidated. They knew that in 2001 the NSA contacted the CEO of Qwest, Joseph Nacchio, and said they wanted to wiretap every customer. He said no. Billions of dollars of government contracts with Qwest were cancelled and Nacchio is now in federal prison.

The new data storage facility in Utah will have enough server space to store all digital data on all Americans. Some of the types of digital data we jotted down today:

Financial records (banking history, deposits and withdrawals, mortgage info, county tax rolls)

Earnings history, income tax history

Credit card history (what foods you've charged, medications, ammo, porno and so on)

Medical and hospital records (illnesses and injuries, abortions, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccinations or lack of vaccinations)

Biometric information (thumb scans, iris scans, DNA sample, gait sample, voice sample)

Educational records (no more sealed juvenile records, either, so we can "fight the terrorists")

Online buying history

Emails (from your primary address and those you thought were secret)

Text messages

Browsing history (political sites you've visited, radical sites you've clicked through to in your reading, porno)

Phone calls

Forum and bulletin board postings

Your changing physical location, tracked by:
GPS in your cars, cell phones and laptops
Passport activity
Closed Circuit TV facial recognition scans
Gait recognition software scans
License plate scans
ATM withdrawals
Key cards for access to work sites

"Smart" technology monitoring when you open your refrigerator doors and the like

Conversations recorded with systems like Onstar, in your car

Cable TV boxes monitoring for live thumbs on the remote

Drones surveilling movement in rural areas

and so on.

According to this article the NSA gathers 2.1 million gigabytes of data on us every hour. They have space now to store an endless amount of data, and it will just sit there until the government decides to come for The Jews or The Jihadists or The Tea Party.

Check out Main Core. From Wikipedia:

Main Core is the code name of a database maintained since the 1980s by the federal government of the United States. Main Core contains personal and financial data of millions of U.S. citizens believed to be threats to national security.[1] The data, which comes from the NSA, FBI, CIA, and other sources,[1] is collected and stored without warrants or court orders.[1] The database's name derives from the fact that it contains "copies of the 'main core' or essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community."[1]