As another comment mentioned the NSA definition of collect seems to be (or was) only when they "look" at it, whatever that means exactly. An interesting thing

As another comment mentioned the NSA definition of collect seems to be (or was) only when they "look" at it, whatever that means exactly. An interesting thing that I like to imagine happens with 1 (though I have no evidence) is that often Jane Doe does blow up a building, but then you see in the news over the next few weeks reports of rounding up terrorist cells related to Jane Doe. If they had to start fresh every time I don't think they could do that, they must have prior information, so I like to think it's the powers involved paying the Palantir tax. It's very reactive, which sucks for the people killed by Jane, but perhaps it's indicative that things haven't yet gone full Minority Report.