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In the excerpt, the purpose of the statistic "more than a hundred million e-mails" is to show that

 ⭕ digital information is widespread and available to monitoring.

 ⭕ most e-mails that are sent are not viewed by the government.

 ⭕ encryption has been used by the military but not ordinary citizens.

 ⭕ e-mail is a good way for people to communicate nowadays.