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Blighty's GCHQ stashes away 50+ billion records a day on people. Just let that sink in

Mark 85

As I understand from the reportage, there's still a rather large pile awaiting release. Releasing a little at a time allows full media irritation at the NSA while dumping it out all at once would be overwhelming for the media to grasp and talk about.

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