NSA claims analysts look at only 0.00004% of world's internet traffic for surveillance

US' National Security Agency (NSA) reportedly touches about 1.6 percent of Internet information as revealed by its document claiming legal authority for its 'snoop-ops'.

According to the Huffington Post, the NSA documents claims that after the 2001 terror attacks, several programs were developed to address the need of the US government to strengthen the coordination between foreign intelligence and domestic law enforcement agencies.

Of the bulk collection of telephone and email records totaling 1.6 percent of the 1,826 petabytes of data carried on internet each day, only 0.025percent is actually selected for review which means that the NSA analysts look at 0.00004 percent of the world's traffic in conducting their mission.

This week US president Barack Obama called in for reforms to the legislation governing the alleged 'snoop-ops' and said that more transparency is essential so that citizens are confident that the surveillance programs do not infringe do not break any laws.