The more I read about the subject the more I believe all this data is primary used for commercial reasons.
What else is to gain from monitoring loads of targets without obvious security reasons?
What else is to gain from monitoring loads of targets without obvious security reasons?
More likely:
2. To award huge government contracts to the collectors and grow the institution at the same time.
I do? If they are suspect in a crime for specific reasons, why are those specific reasons not enough leads to follow?
As Chomsky said, if you're so worried about terrorism, stop participating in it... as in, The Iraq "War" alone killed so many more people than 9/11, and nobody could even be arsed to look at the debris of the latter before destroying it. This is akin to a wolf saying the chicken need to tell him where they are at all times, to better protect them. Feel free to fall for that once, but then please join the rest of us in the real world.