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Germany provides NSA with staggering 1.3bn pieces of metadata per month – report
Germany's BND intelligence agency sends enormous amounts of phone and text data to the US National Security Agency (NSA) each month, Die Zeit Online reported, adding yet another layer to the spy scandal embroiling the German government.
About a fifth of all metadata gathered by the BND each month, or some 1.3 billion pieces go to the NSA, the website reported on Tuesday, citing confidential German intelligence files it obtained.
German media earlier revealed that BND was collecting 220 million metadata pieces per day, which amounted to an estimated 6.6 billion a month.
The metadata of phone calls and text messages includes contact details and times of activity, but not the actual content. According to the leaked BND files, the metadata, which was sent to the NSA, was mostly that of foreign communication taking place in crisis regions …. http://rt.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/05/germany-provides-nsa-with-staggering.html
