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Old 16th March 2014
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50 years is probably too much. Too many stuff happen in 50 years, many people die and/or become insignificant in the grand scheme of things, many new companies are created, many others go under, many governments are changed radically, new states are created, alliances are made and broken, etc.
The gathered info is simply useless after some time. I'd say keeping this kind of data for 5 or 10 years is more useful and technically easier to achieve.

I also doubt the entire thing has much to do with the war on terror. This is all speculation, but I bet anti-terrorism is the smallest part of this. Think of all the potential uses, anything from local anti-corruption to industrial espionage abroad.
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