@freepatriot Sadly, I am pretty aware of their surveillance capabilities. Although this pervasive capture is entirely unconstitutional, it seems hopeless at present to have any politicians address it.

I think, in practice, unless they are specifically paying attention to you for some reason -- and it seems NSA only does this for actual security threats -- they seem to ignore most stuff and not share it with law enforcement. I think this is mostly a matter of information overload.

At the same time it is frustrating when you know they have such capabilities, and they did jack shit to stop many serious attacks. BTW, they had a lot of this in place well before the Patriot Act.

I am concerned that in the future this stuff will be used though to "decide" that people who have never committed crimes are "dangerous."