http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/25/gchq_tracked_web_browsing_habits_kar... KARMA POLICE: GCHQ spooks spied on every web user ever Leaked docs show how out-of-control spy agency went full Stasi on innocent surfers New documents revealing GCHQ's mass-surveillance activities have detailed an operation codenamed KARMA POLICE, which slurped up the details of "every visible user on the Internet". http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/25/trillions_in_surveillance_gchq/ Blighty's GCHQ stashes away 50+ billion records a day on people. Just let that sink in 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. The store weighed in at 217TB when uncompressed, the largest share of which was HTTP data (41 per cent), which alongside web search (19 per cent) and SMTP data (12 per cent) accounted for almost three quarters of all that it held.