New documents from the Snowden archive shed light on the "Secret Google" Anb

The US National Security Agency has created a search engine similar to the Google to transmit secret information to almost two dozens of government organizations, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the next portion of documents from the archive of the former NSA employee Edward Snowden.

"Icreach is the first large search engine for a full metadata exchange of communication as part of the US intelligence community, developed in connection with the growing need for the collection, processing and storage of a large amount of information related to intelligence goals," the secret document says from 2007.

According to information published on the page of The Intercept , a search engine launched in 2007 is equipped with a simple interface that is used in Google.

The system allows you to search for 850 billion records that contain confidential information, including metadata of telephone conversations (subscriber numbers, as well as the time and place of the call), e-mail (names of the sender and recipient, the time of sending) and Internet charts, fax, coordinates of cell phones, etc. In total, there are 30 different types of metadata in the list.

With the help of these data, special services had the opportunity to determine everyone who called a specific number during the day, a month or a year, as well as compile a list of people who were in some place at a certain moment.

From the published materials it follows that in 2010, more than 1000 analysts from 23 federal agencies had access to the search engine, and the total funding of the project at that time amounted to 2.5 to 4.5 million dollars a year.