The system for handling those cross-jurisdictional requests for
evidence just cannot meet the demand that we're going to see.
So the demand is just enormous.
So just as an example, the United Kingdom represents approximately 2% of the world's
Internet traffic.
And last year, the British government requested over
50,000 pieces of evidence from six American technology companies.
So this is the big six, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Microsoft,
and I'm forgetting the sixth, but you understand the volume, right?
I mean, 50,000 requests for evidence stored in another jurisdiction,
right, from American companies, from a tiny island nation.
We're close with the UK.
They're big in our minds, but it's a tiny, tiny country.
Now imagine, India has not made as many requests, and
China has not made as many requests, but now imagine a country the size of India or
Brazil making those kinds of requests, right.
These American technology companies,
really, every global technology company is going to be inundated with requests for
evidence in connection with crimes, partly because evidence is becoming digital, but
also because this evidence is very often international.
So the jurisdictional questions are going to be paramount.