SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING A SET OF COMMUNICATION AND TRANSACTION DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A USER OF INTEREST SOURCED FROM MULTIPLE DIFFERENT NETWORK CARRIERS AND FOR ENABLING MULTIPLE ANALYSTS TO INDEPENDENTLY AND CONFIDENTIALLY ACCESS THE SET OF COMMUNICATION AND TRANSACTION DATA

A system, method, and apparatus for collecting data streams, such as data packets, on a network, such as the Internet, are disclosed. Evaluation of the metadata and the relationships can be performed algorithmically, as predetermined by an analyst or as provided as preset options by the network monitoring system (NMS). The collected data associated with the users of the network may be accessed by multiple analysts belonging to different groups having a NMS of their own. The system may allow access to multiple analysts belonging to separate groups by parsing through a single instance of the stored data. Multiple analysts belonging to different groups may allow to access to a single instance of the stored data.