Slick and Herself, back in the years between 1993 and 2001, were perusing FBI files (for which they were seemingly never called to account for), as part of the “oppo research”, and they used a good deal of this raw data as a lever to avoid some of the more drastic consequences of their behavior then. Tapping into servers and phone records is just a newer and more sophisticated means of this “oppo research”.
And a heck of a lot easier especially when it's an automated intel collection machine.