The documents said that G.C.H.Q., which has worked very closely with the N.S.A. for decades, may store the content of the communications flowing over the cables for three days and the so-called metadata — information about who is contacting whom at what time — for 30 days.
Bringing a touch of mindfulness to the day-to-day communications flow, Shine has created a set of tools to help teenagers feel empowered to deal with the day-to-day highs and lows of navigating the path to adulthood.
"You can spoof a packet and insert myself into a communications flow," said Grant Hartline, the director of systems engineering at Mirage Networks.
In particular, those that connect communities in the core with communities in the periphery of the network, according to the strength of weak ties theory [24], might represent the most important patterns along which communications flow, enhancing users ability of getting in touch with each other, efficiently spreading information, and so on.
It has done this via demands authorised by the secret foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court, but kept secret from the companies' users; and by tapping into the communications that flow between the companies' server farms across the world.
Nearly two decades later, a staggering percentage of communications flow through a small set of corporations — and thus, under the profound influence of those companies and other institutions.
We have many years of refining a model of management that centers on routinization of work and highly constrained communications flow.
Internet security experts say the demands by the United Arab Emirates for certain access to communications flowing across the BlackBerry network echo requests of other governments around the world.
In Virginia, a telecommunications consultant reported, Verizon had set up a dedicated fiber-optic line running from New Jersey to Quantico, Va., home to a large military base, allowing government officials to gain access to all communications flowing through the carrier's operations center.
