I'm pretty sure that's media sensationalism - were they get quite ahead of the facts and details, and spin the headlines. Or worse, leave out the logic of it all and replace it with something else - the narative the reader wants to believe (ex: they are gathering data on me to be used against me).
Not only does it take time to process the data, but an operational window (of that data) needs to be maintained for the next couple of days - were that data can be cross-referenced with the new feed and possibly be mind and connected to new events as they are unfolding. As otherwise it's useless.
The data is filtered for specific targets, or on specific triggers, or graph data, which is then kept. The rest (like 99.9999995% or more) is just noise that has no use to intelligence gathering - and I don't see why anyone would store it - or would want to store it.
I'm pretty sure that's media sensationalism - were they get quite ahead of the facts and details, and spin the headlines. Or worse, leave out the logic of it all and replace it with something else - the narative the reader wants to believe (ex: they are gathering data on me to be used against me).
Not only does it take time to process the data, but an operational window (of that data) needs to be maintained for the next couple of days - were that data can be cross-referenced with the new feed and possibly be mind and connected to new events as they are unfolding. As otherwise it's useless.
The data is filtered for specific targets, or on specific triggers, or graph data, which is then kept. The rest (like 99.9999995% or more) is just noise that has no use to intelligence gathering - and I don't see why anyone would store it - or would want to store it.