In 2008, the NSA began collecting what it called upstream communications, essentially information that travels across the Internet, separate from the what it receives from Internet service providers that filter data to respond to agency requests.n 2008, the NSA began collecting what it called upstream communications, essentially information that travels across the Internet, separate from the what it receives from Internet service providers that filter data to respond to agency requests.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs; sometimes also small and medium enterprises) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel numbers fall below certain limits.etrakis and Kostis (2012) explore the role of interpersonal trust and knowledge in the number of small and medium enterprises. They conclude that knowledge positively affects the number of SMEs, which in turn, positively affects interpersonal trust.