I always wonder how much of the bandwidth in the world is used to spy on the "regular" traffic.
I suspect it's well over 50%. I mean, the UK is far from the only power capturing all our traffic.
Given the percentage of global internet bandwidth that is video streaming, and the immense expense that entails, I find your >50% figure hard to believe.
I have a sneaking suspicion it's somewhat more than three days. Unless isp's are in on the game and keeping traffic/ logs for greater than the three.
Good to know where my tax money is going
Citation?
"Valuable data can be kept for three days, and metadata for 30 days. One leaked document states that all metadata is usually kept: 'we pull in everything we see'."
"metadata" & "everything we see" is not the same thing as "all internet traffic". I'm not trying downplay the quantity or sensitivity of what is stored, its just the idea that all internet traffic is being recorded by any government seems technically very challenging and makes me very skeptical of that unqualified claim when I see it.