User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-71.79.169.229-20140205072249/@comment-23939797-20140205145426

Sure, collecting them is probably a waste of time and money, but there is no real negative to you to have them stored in the back of a large computer bank full of phone calls.

Gah! No real negative, besides 10 trillion dollars a year? Also, the NSA is made up of people, who can be corupted, and have lives outside of the NSA.