SAARI NEWS: facebook wide its operation outside usa

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<b>STOCKHOLM: Facebook says it has started processing data through its first server farm outside the United States, on the edge of the Arctic Circle in Sweden.</b><br />
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The company inaugurated servers in the new, 300,000-square foot (28,000-square meter) facility outside the city Lulea Wednesday, saying it should improve the social network's performance in Europe.<br />
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Facebook director of site operations Tom Furlong said the servers will serve a large chunk of Facebook's European users.<br />
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Facebook is one of nine major U.S. Internet providers whose customers usage is swept up every day by an NSA countererror surveillance program.<br />
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The secret court order that authorizes the program, named <b>PRISM</b>, only allows it to examine foreigners internet usage oversease.<br />
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Furlong said the data stored in Sweden is replicated in other locations in the U.S.<br />
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Facebook starts first servers outside the US

STOCKHOLM: Facebook says it has started processing data through its first server farm outside the United States, on the edge of the Arcti...