I was reading about the recent slides. While someone can search anything, full data is generally only kept 24-48 hours unless it comes across as “suspicious or interesting” to the NSA, otherwise only meta data is collected and kept for up to a month. Not THAT big of a deal
Official documents also showed that information could not be used without going through proper legal channels (Kudos for at least saying that in their document even though all they need to do is go to the “secret” court :lol )
However it appears they are not storing data on EVERYONE in the capacity once speculated via the first set of documents. Any real hard data is only kept if you are of interested to the NSA< otherwise the worst they have is metadata which again unless you are of interest is wiped and removed…
I’m not suprised at all, after listening to some of the infastructure it was belived the NSA to have, it would take so much power, money and space to keep storage of everyones dirty little secrets.