Blighty's GCHQ stashes away 50+ billion records a day on people. Just let that sink in
The enormous scale of GCHQ's surveillance was revealed on Friday by newly published Snowden documents. The files note the growth in capabilities enjoyed by the UK government's snoopers since intercepting communications in bulk from 2007.
These details were revealed in a series of documents published by The Intercept including one on the "flat data store" codenamed BLACK HOLE, and a document calling itself "the one-stop shop for Cyber Defence Operations legal and policy information."
When the slide on BLACK HOLE was composed in March 2009, the flat data store held more than 1.1 trillion things which GCHQ had collected since August 2007.
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