User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-206.174.49.11-20140205043023/@comment-20644-20140205044120

Debates like this are very rarely about what the government is doing right now. It's the fact that it's open to abuse in the future, and that private data is being documented without public input or rigorous judicial review. We can certainly have a debate about whether that's necessary, but the real issue has very little to do with what an analyst may be looking at right now.