US and British intelligence mining data from internet companies.

[Fly]

Now I don't quite get this. Are they going to store these millions of emails, texts, etc, search them all, and look for baddies ?
Or do they store them all in the event the data stored might be relevant to a person under question over a crime.

If your going to rob a bank, don't take your mobile, turn it off.
And don't brag about mugging people on social network sites 
 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html

[Pete]

>> Now I don't quite get this. Are they going to store these millions of emails, texts, etc, search them all, and look for baddies ?

As far as I can tell they don't save the content of these phone calls, email, etc - they just save who contacts who, when folks contact each other etc. From this they can see who a suspect of theirs talks to/emails, how often and then see who those acquaintances talk to and email.

They don't save all the conversations and specific details, or so they tell us... 

[therealjr]

but given the theory of 6 degrees of separation they could link any of us to terrorists?????