On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:59 AM, coderman <[email protected]> wrote: > Scope and Scale of NSA Collection > According to figures published by a major tech provider, the Internet > carries 1,826 Petabytes of > information per day. In its foreign intelligence mission, NSA touches > about 1.6% of that. However, > of the 1.6% of the data, only 0.025% is actually selected for review. > The net effect is that NSA > analysts look at 0.00004% of the world's traffic in conducting their > mission - that's less than one > part in a million. Put another way, if a standard basketball court > represented the global > communications environment, NSA's total collection would be > represented by an area smaller than a > dime on that basketball court. > """ > > > again we see the fallacy of "not a search/collection until reviewed by > an analyst."... >
Also, only 20 percent of that basketball court is web, email, IM and other consumer data excluding file sharing, gaming and video. So if we adjust the figure they "touch" 8 percent of our sensitive communications. Assuming the figures are true in the first place.
