Given their lax security and general cluelessness of the people in charge, I'm quite sure it will leak at some point, at least partially, perhaps to corporations, perhaps to the public, just as internal NSA docs have leaked. It's very hard to keep things like that airtight forever - all it takes is one slip up and all the info stored could be accessible at some point in the future. It's already indexed and searchable, just not by you.
The important point here is that looking at present day tech (as in your comment on search engine prowess) is not the way to look at it - one day all this information will be accessible to much more intelligent future algorithms, able to link it together in myriad ways and form an almost perfect picture of your life in retrospect. The data is there, and will be stored forever.
Snowden used "a memory stick and other removable media, including a CD-ROM that he labeled as a Lady Gaga music CD" [1], so this kind of limiting wouldn't work. But he still did loads of internal network data queries, that's what I'm talking about.
Not yet :)
Given their lax security and general cluelessness of the people in charge, I'm quite sure it will leak at some point, at least partially, perhaps to corporations, perhaps to the public, just as internal NSA docs have leaked. It's very hard to keep things like that airtight forever - all it takes is one slip up and all the info stored could be accessible at some point in the future. It's already indexed and searchable, just not by you.
The important point here is that looking at present day tech (as in your comment on search engine prowess) is not the way to look at it - one day all this information will be accessible to much more intelligent future algorithms, able to link it together in myriad ways and form an almost perfect picture of your life in retrospect. The data is there, and will be stored forever.