On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 04:33:09 -0000 (UTC), Joe Scotch
wrote:

They vacuum up everything, and I'm sure even this conversation is being
saved (likely as we type it!) so that they can grep through it whenever
they glean a snippet of "intelligence" which they then compare to
everything known out there.

They fly helicopters over NYC to vaccuum up hundreds of thousands of
conversations at a time.

You'd probably hate to know what the Air Force does with its RC-135s. On
the bright side, they claim they don't do it within our borders, so
there's that.

In a previous life, I used to perform maintenance on their 'special'
equipment.