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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