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(Updated: May 24, 2015) Earlier this month, it was the one year anniversary of the Snowden-leaks, by far the biggest disclosure ever of highly secret documents from the US National Security Agency (NSA). Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald are using these documents to show how eager NSA is to collect every bit of communication that travels around the world. But by taking a close and careful look at the original slides and reports which have been published so far it comes out that they contain no hard evidence for a massive abuse of power or violation of the law, not even for the alleged mass surveillance of innocent people all over the world. - No Place To Hide - NSA's military tasks - NSA's goals - NSA collection worldwide - - Metadata collection - Collection inside the US - Conclusion - Headquarters of the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade (screenshot from PBS Frontline - United States of Secrets)   No Place To Hide Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald cl...

(Updated: July 16, 2017) Today it's exactly one year ago the Snowden-leaks started. Among the many highly classified documents which were disclosed during the past year are various charts that provide us with actual numbers about the amount of data the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting. Here we will take a look at those numbers and see what we can learn from them by comparing various sources and from breaking them down into NSA-divisions, countries and collection programs. As still only fragmented parts have been published, this overview cannot provide completeness or full accuracy (estimates are shown as round numbers). Numbers related to: - BOUNDLESSINFORMANT - NSA volumes and limits - GCHQ metadata collection - NSA collection by country - NSA collection by division - SSO Collection programs - Shared by 2nd party partner agencies - Shared by 3rd party partner agencies   BOUNDLESSINFORMANT The most detailed numbers about NSA's data collection are from the BOUND...