Reply to post: Seems like a lot

NSA sought data on 534 MILLION phone calls in 2017

Bruce Ordway

Seems like a lot

The thought of being a the target of NSA searches is kind of terrifying.

However, I'm not sure I should be too concerned about my calls inadvertently showing up as noise in search results due to the criteria being too broad.

Yes the numbers do seem big but... it would be nice if they could be put in some kind of perspective.

I really wonder how these correspond to the total number of calls and size of populations.

Maybe someone here knows where to find the information needed to put the report in better context?

I did find one study on calls that I found interesting but it didn't really help answer my questions.

http://www.dhl.com/content/dam/Campaigns/gci2014/downloads/dhl_gci_2014_study_high.pdf

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