Government internet database

Maybe the u-turn on the internet database has also to do with the realisation what the cost of such a data base would be. Below I am making an estimate of how big an annual data set would be: 503 terabyte. This would need an army of IT specialists to maintain. A query on this data base would probably take a lot of time. And this is a conservative estimate assuming only the URL (and datetime) is kept and no search keywords or so. It also assumes emails are transferred into text and attachments are lost.

	Population	60,000,000
	Internet users %	73.00%
	Internet users	43,800,000
Websites	Sites per day	15
	Days per week	6
	Datetime field	8	byte
	URN field	8	byte
	Site field	100	byte
Emails	Emails per day	15
	Text size of email	1000	byte
	Email accounts per person	2
	Size of annual database	503,388,144,000,000	byte
		503,388,144,000	KB
		503,388,144	MB
		503,388	GB
	Size of monthly slice	41,949.01	GB