The revelations of the former US National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden and other intelligence agency whistleblowers, such as William Binney, have exposed the staggering extent of data collection in the US and the collaboration of 33 other countries—with the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand leading the pack. Binney has revealed that ‘at least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US’

~ Oren Gruenbaum, Commonwealth Update Editor