The files reveal that GCHQ has been tapping undersea fibre-optic cables to get access to vast quantities of internet traffic under its Tempora programme.
In Chicago, SBC, one of the largest telephone companies in the United States, returned $8.8 million in federal money after vast quantities of Internet routing equipment bought for use in schools were found stockpiled improperly in a warehouse, Mr. Greenwood said.
Americans discovered in 2005 that their spooks were hoovering up vast quantities of internet traffic and scanning it for anything suspicious, a practice that has continued despite doubts about its legality.
In the virtual world, even if everyone had access to the mobile Internet, the ability to use it would vary across different groups of people, due to individual differences in socioeconomic status and the quantity and quality of Internet resources they possessed.
It is the scope of this current study to analyze the quantity and pattern of Internet usage among mental health patients.
Three of the subjects had previously molested prepubescent children, the other five had been convicted because of the possession of large quantities of explicit internet child pornography.
The documents, which were examined by four independent telecommunications and computer security experts at the request of The New York Times, describe equipment capable of monitoring a large quantity of e-mail messages, Internet phone calls, and other Internet traffic.
Our ability to get the right answer is hindered by the lack of quality and lack of quantity of material on the Internet".
In the latest installment of the Snowden disclosures on Friday, The Guardian reported that the N.S.A.'s British counterpart has tapped into hundreds of fiber-optic communications lines and is sharing a vast quantity of e-mail and Internet traffic with American intelligence.
Due to the explosive growth of Internet usage, the quantity of context information available in networking environments is also growing rapidly, triggering research for novel architectures and protocols that are enriched or personalized based on the particular features and dynamics of such information.
