On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:59 AM, coderman
Scope and Scale of NSA Collection According to figures published by a major tech provider, the Internet carries 1,826 Petabytes of information per day. In its foreign intelligence mission, NSA touches about 1.6% of that. However, of the 1.6% of the data, only 0.025% is actually selected for review. The net effect is that NSA analysts look at 0.00004% of the world's traffic in conducting their mission - that's less than one part in a million. Put another way, if a standard basketball court represented the global communications environment, NSA's total collection would be represented by an area smaller than a dime on that basketball court. """
again we see the fallacy of "not a search/collection until reviewed by an analyst."...
Also, only 20 percent of that basketball court is web, email, IM and other consumer data excluding file sharing, gaming and video. So if we adjust the figure they "touch" 8 percent of our sensitive communications. Assuming the figures are true in the first place.