"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.
