Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Address Posted on Facebook Site

Dana Altman — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:22:30 +0000

A new Facebook group created to remove Sheriff Joe Arpaio from power has created controversy after one of the page’s members posted the location of the Sheriff’s home. The group, which has grown to over 8,000 members in a single week, includes commentary about Arpaio, pictures taken from protests and information about future demonstrations. A recent post included a map to the Sheriff’s home in Fountain Hills and a satellite picture of the property.

The sheriff is known for overseeing the Tent City Jail, where inmates are housed under surplus military tents. Broiling summer heat or chilly desert winter, all 2,000 inmates live outside, sleeping on cots in old canvas tents. Pink undergarments are only one of Arpaio’s many innovative jail policies. For food, the sheriff serves inmates green — as in fetid — baloney sandwiches.

In Maricopa County jails, inmates don old-fashioned prison stripes and work on chain gangs. Arpaio’s extreme tactics, many of which specifically target illegal immigrants, have kept him in the public eye since he took office back in 1993.

Sources: http://www.azfamily.com/news/Anti-Arpaio-Facebook-group-publishes-location-of-Sheriffs-house-83088572.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio

NSA to Build $1.6 Billion Storage Facility to House Personal Surveillance Data

Dana Altman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:52:56 +0000

The National Security Agency is planning to build a $1.6 billion storage facility in Utah to warehouse personal data. The giant facility will contain more than 1 million square feet of data center space. Construction is scheduled to begin in June 2010 and be completed by March 2013. The new facility is estimated to require as much electricity as all of Salt Lake City. All forms of electronic data will be stored at the center, such as intercepted phone calls, e-mail messages, Internet searches and other communications intercepted by the agency.

The effort was publicly disclosed in early 2008 and is designed to bolster cybersecurity-related awareness and incident response across the federal government. Much of the effort remains highly classified. It is partly an effort by federal agencies to reduce their exposure to Internet-based threats by reducing and consolidating the number of external Internet connections across government. Instead of having each agency manage its own Internet connections, the plan involves having a small group of Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) providers administer centralized connectivity and gateway-monitoring services for federal agencies. Critics of the project argue that the collection and permanant storage of such personal data is not necessary for national security purposes and intrudes upon the privacy rights of citizens.

Sources: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12744661

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/07/01/nsa-plans-16-billion-utah-data-center/

http://gizmodo.com/5395095/the-nsa-to-store-a-yottabyte-of-your-phone-calls-emails-and-other-big-brothery-stuff

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/01/nsa-to-store-yottabytes-of-surveillance-data-in-utah-megarepository/

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Address Posted on Facebook Site

NSA to Build $1.6 Billion Storage Facility to House Personal Surveillance Data