Do you really think the NSA has the manpower to sift through billions of keystrokes and metadata

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57. They've got Google for Tyrants - why do you think they've got that new datacenter in Utah?

All you have to do is surf to google.com, and you can see for yourself what's available to you at the click of a mouse and the typing of a few keys - Google's got this art down!

But Google sticks mostly to indexing public web pages and Internet data that people have chosen, or by default, made available to it.

The NSA does the same damn thing - indexing and searching. What do they do with all those supercomputers? The same thing Google does.

Except they're indexing your private phone records, your emails, your metadata, your private information.

I'll say it again - the NSA is Google for Tyrants.

They don't have people sifting through that data, they've got the search engines doing that for them. Hundreds of billions of dollars of computer infrastructure.