You would have to be exceptionally naive to think that they haven’t been collecting the contents of all phone, email and other communications for years. They didn’t build that couple of million square feet mega server farm out West (Utah?) just for ID, routing, etc. information that could easily be stored on a couple of large servers at NSA.
You think the same as me. The NSA builds a colossal data storage warehouse in Utah to “hold” all these phones calls,emails, etc until “if” they need to be looked at. So now what happens to this Utah storage facility? Its going to be allowed to sit around and rust?
Dumb question. It is there so it will be used. No billion dollar baby Federale bureaucracy ever cuts off an arm thus forcing their useless eater drones into the dreaded private sector. Heaven forfend!! Imagine how many talented affirmative action hires would be booted out into the unforgiving Utah desert!!
ALSO Ed Snowden said all that stuff stored on you is not sitting in some musty ol hard to access hard drives. It is immediately retrevable via their internal search engines