NSA to world: we're only watching 1.6% of internet
The USA's National Security Agency (NSA) has issued a document titled ( The National Security Agency: Missions, Authorities, Oversight and Partnerships(PDF) that explains some of its operations and includes a claim it “... touches about 1.6%... “ of daily Internet traffic and “...only 0.025% is actually selected for review.”
Released on Saturday with little fanfare, the document's prologue explains that the NSA lacked tools to track one of the 9/11 hijackers. As a result “Several programs were developed to address the U.S. Government's needs to connect the dots of information available to the intelligence community and to strengthen the coordination between foreign intelligence and domestic law enforcement agencies.”
It goes on to explain the legal underpinnings of the Agency's work and identify the following methodology for its work:
