GCHQ/government would claim people aren't spied on until an analyst looks at their data. They have normalised 'collect it all' and created a mental distinction

GCHQ/government would claim people aren't spied on until an analyst looks at their data. They have normalised 'collect it all' and created a mental distinction between that and mass surveillance. Obviously running analysis on the data doesn't count as someone looking at it for this logic to work.