It's also how they tried to mislead the public by saying NSA only collects "4 pe...

higherpurpose on Dec 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables

It's also how they tried to mislead the public by saying NSA only collects "4 percent" of the world's data" or something - but "forgot" to mention that data could be emails, chats and urls (essentially the content itself), while the majority of the data is stuff like Youtube/Netflix content and torrents.

_up on Dec 1, 2014 [–]

Probably 4% of max cable capacity. But the cables have a lot of unused capacity.