article_snippet: But this probably still means that thousands of texts, emails and Facebook messages are read every day by Government spies.
article_snippet: The ISC report blanks out almost every detail which would reveal the true extent of the Government's state snooping programme.
article_snippet: The ISC report reveals there are around 100,000 'bearers' – or underwater cables – which transmit information over the internet.
article_snippet: But only a small percentage  are actually accessed by Britain's spies, The ISC report says.
article_snippet: the committee also blanks out the exact percentage of information accessed off these chosen cables every day.
article_snippet: the committee says only a 'tiny fraction' of the billions of items that are sent over the internet on a daily basis are snooped on.
article_snippet: The ISC report says: 'Only the communications of suspected criminals or national security targets are deliberately selected for examination.'
article_snippet: ** per cent of the items that transit the internet in one day are ever selected to be read by a GCHQ analyst.'
article_snippet: * thousand items a day' are read by the spooks.
article_snippet: These are 'only the ones considered to be of the highest intelligence value', The ISC report adds.