User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-5708279-20140205181125/@comment-20644-20140205191043

You are correct (so far as I know) that they are not actively monitoring activity. However, they do collect and store a fair amount of that information. They have the capacity to monitor it. Whether they should, and what kind of oversight that data collection has, is a big part of what this debate is about.