A latest revelation has been made by Edward Snowden of NSA, that a search engine has been built similar to "Google", and to build this search engine more than 850 billion personal records like cellphone locations, phone calls, internet chats and email accounts etc. have been leaked by NSA (National Security Agency) according to classified documents provided by Edward Snowden.

The search engine build is named as "ICREACH" that has the records of US citizens, private communication foreigners. This search engine is not for public use, this can be accessed only by 1,000 or more analysts at US government agencies, that perform the intelligence work.

The US agencies like FBI, DEA and CIA are using this search engine. This search engine has been specially designed to contain more than 850 billion of meta data record of all the innocent US citizens and also some foreigners. NSA has admitted for sharing some of the information with agencies and there was no clue of this happening.

What is ICREACH ?

ICREACH was a search engine that was started building in 2007, which was thought to be made to share the data with the agencies. These were specially designed for tracking suspect's moments. NSA has shared the meta data so as to complete the creation of this Google Like search engine.

What Meta data of search engine contains?

This meta data that has been shared contains the information of US citizens like phone numbers, personal chats on internet. For example, you communicated a person through email, the emails of both you and the one you have contacted is saved in the database of the ICREACH. But the content that was included in your emails are not shared.

Cost of ICREACH project?

The purpose and the creation of the search engine cost about $2.5-$4.6 million per year. This project is now been used to identify the suspects and follow new leads for the crimes been performed in the country.

But the question is now that how can the personal information of citizen be shared around like this and what is the assurance that the information's will be safe and will not be used for personal identification.

At the leads provide the information that Snowden has been granted 3 years residence in Russia, which is starting from 1st August.

And if you remember, US president Barack Obama had said that the government should not be allowed to collect personal information of public for purpose of intelligence.

This news has enlightened a fact that if the NSA is not able to keep secrets under control and from coming in papers then how is this personal information of thousands of citizens safe?