Edward Snowden’s Snowden revelations have brought to light the existence of a metadata search engine built by the US National Security Agency. The Google-like search engine, dubbed ICREACH, was built with the sole purpose of sharing more than 850 billion metadata records with other agencies, such as the FBI, CIA, DEA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the CGHQ. More than 1,000 analysts from 23 US government intelligence agencies had access to the ICreACH search engine in 2010. Details about its existence are contained in the archive of materials provided to The Intercept by Edward Snowden.”]