“NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program,” The Wall Street Journal, April 25, 2019. The cost of storing it outweighs its value for intelligence, net of cost of defending the collection and retention.
So, it costs too much to store the information, versus its value. Didn’t we all make that argument to justify a defensible deletion project?
Information – cost and value. Basic Infonomics.
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