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Fermi calc: What percentage of available data does the NSA capture?

1 pointsby JamesCRRalmost 12 years ago

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JamesCRRalmost 12 years ago
Things actually look at lot worse when you consider the level of data collected in certain countries. For instance, in Jordan 12.7 billion datapoints were collected in one month concerning a population of 6.1 million. 2000 datapoints per person. According to my Fermi calc that's pretty much all the digital metadata generated by an average citizen.