{"id":9265,"date":"2013-07-12T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9265"},"modified":"2013-07-12T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:36:57","slug":"the-economics-of-americas-domestic-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-americas-domestic-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of America\u2019s Domestic Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/071213_1428_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As it turns out the American government is spending millions of tax-payer dollars for the surveillance of Americans. Anne Flaherty looked at what it cost them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Verizon charges $775 for each wiretap, and $500 a month thereafter to maintain the wiretap.<\/li>\n<li>Emails are usually handed over by service providers for $25.<\/li>\n<li>Google and Skype allow law enforcement agencies to have real-time access to communications. The fees for this are unknown.<\/li>\n<li>Overall AT&amp;T and Verizon make about $5 million a year from servicing government spying requests.<\/li>\n<li>But the payment to mobile operators are just a fraction of the cost of spying. While a Verizon wiretap might cost about $1,000, the total bill for a wiretap can come out to $50,000 to cover other operational costs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the costs of the domestic surveillance programs, how mobile operators justify the costs, cases where the information is handed over for free, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2013\/07\/10\/what-government-pays-to-snoop-on-you\/2504819\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2013\/07\/10\/what-government-pays-to-snoop-on-you\/2504819\/\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out the American government is spending millions of tax-payer dollars for the surveillance of Americans. Anne Flaherty looked at what it cost them: Verizon charges $775 for each wiretap, and $500 a month thereafter to maintain the wiretap. Emails are usually handed over by service providers for $25. Google and Skype allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/071213_1428_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9268,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions\/9268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}