Australian intelligence agencies are receiving ''huge volumes'' of ''immensely valuable'' information from the United States including through the controversial PRISM program, Fairfax Media can reveal. The ''data deluge'' has required the Australian government to build a state-of-the-art secret data storage facility just outside Canberra. Privately labelled by one official as "the new black vault", the high-security data centre is nearing completion at the HMAS Harman communications base and will support the operations of Australia's signals intelligence agency, the top-secret Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). The...
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