`Twenty-five miles due south of Salt Lake City, a massive construction project is nearing completion. The heavily secured site belongs to the National Security Agency.
`The spy center` - that`s what some of the locals like Jasmine Widmer, who works at Bluffdale`s sandwich shop, told our Fox News team as part of an eight month investigation into data collection and privacy rights that will be broadcast Sunday at 9 p.m. ET called `Fox News Reporting: Your Secrets Out.”
The NSA says the Utah Data Center is a facility for the intelligence community that will have a major focus on cyber security. The agency will neither confirm nor deny specifics. Some published reports suggest it could hold 5 zettabytes of data. (Just one zettabyte is the equivalent of about 62 billion stacked iPhones 5`s - that stretches past the moon.
One man we hoped would answer our questions, the current director of the NSA General Keith Alexander, declined Fox News`s requests to sit down for an interview, so we stopped by the offices of a Washington think tank, where Alexander was speaking at a cyber security event last year.
Asked if the Utah Data Center would hold the data of American citizens, Alexander said, `No...we don`t hold data on U.S. citizens,` adding that the NSA staff `take protecting your civil liberties and privacy as the most important thing that they do, and securing this nation.`
But critics, including former NSA employees, say the data center is front and center in the debate over liberty, security and privacy.
`[It] raises the most serious questions about the vast amount of data that could be kept in one place for many, many different sources,` Thomas Drake told Fox News.
Drake - who worked at the NSA from Aug. 2001 to Aug. 2008 and was unsuccessfully prosecuted on espionage charges - says Americans should be concerned about letting the government go too far in the name of security.
`It`s in secret so you don`t really know,` Drake explained. `It`s benign, right. If I haven`t - and if I haven`t done anything wrong it doesn`t matter. The only way you can have perfect security is have a perfect surveillance state. That`s George Orwell. That`s 1984. That`s what that would look like.`
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