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>> 151 million records

Does anyone hear seriously believe they only "took in" 151 million of anything? That's a single flashdrive. NSA operates datacenters. The things they collect are measured by numbers well into billions.

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> The Utah Data Center, also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center,[1] is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

Collected, as defined by the NSA, is only the data that they looked at, not the data that they have. And they probably don't count the data that was looked at by a program.

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