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spy files Wikileaks reveal the alarming scale and ambition of the industry is now dedicated to surveillance of our daily life

now live digital, flitting from Facebook to YouTube, check out our iPhone and Blackberry, and talk with our loved ones through Skype. Very few of us worry too much about Twitter our personal opinions on politics or chatting with a new social network "friend" in the world, you hardly know and often forgotten in a matter of hours or days .

However, these interactions have become fodder for a new industry that aims to data privacy and kept forever in the high-end servers that contain many petabytes (a million gigabytes) of information. This industry provides new tools for data search and reconstruct our past, and even our movements in real time with our mobile phones, in a way that could come back to haunt us.

Wikileaks has published spy files - a treasure trove of nearly 300 documents of these companies shine a light on this industry. In the Office of investigative journalism, where I work, to slip through the documents and requested further our research team - Matthew Wrigley, David Pegg, Christian Jensen and Jamie Thunder - used to create a database data Online will soon cover more than 160 companies in 25 countries.

worth spending some time browsing through this material, because it proposes that this new industry to do is nothing less than Orwellian.

"We are aware of the traditional intelligence agencies MI5 intelligence and listen to the story for the phone one or two people," said Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, the Board. He continued:

"Over the last ten years, something else happened. Now we see the mass surveillance, where the computer systems of an entire country are infected with monitoring programs, where the phone call from a group of countries can be and are recorded by a company.

"Before, we all thought, why the government is interested in me, my brother, my business is not interesting? I am not a criminal, however, these companies sell to state agencies intelligence capabilities. spying on the entire population at a time and keep the information permanently. In the five or six years, if your brother or someone who is of interest to the company or the government can not turn back time and look to see what you said or what e-mail . "

The magazine cites Bob Griffin, CEO of i2 "When we started this over a decade, we talked about things like the exchange of information collection and data that I have" said Griffin. "In those days, people look at you like a green banana. Why would I want to share information Why would I want to get the license to operate information or licenses for hunting and fishing in the environment of the police? "
police are excited about the potential of: Jason Scheiss, analytical services division manager in the Durham Police Department in North Carolina, Government Computer News said they hoped to expand data collection to include data on water and wastewater billing, records of visitors to parks and recreational facilities and to correlate with the list of all days in jail. "So we can say," Hey, look here. All of these crimes occur when the individual is not in prison, "she told the magazine.