Yes, that's why I quite carefully said, "Every year, the NSA COULD..." Emphasis on the COULD. It's to emphasize how cheap storage is, and how relatively few U

Yes, that's why I quite carefully said, "Every year, the NSA COULD..." Emphasis on the COULD. It's to emphasize how cheap storage is, and how relatively few U.S. Citizens there are. In our day-to-day lives, we think 311 Million is an enormous number. But in the scale of computing, it's actually quite small. My real point is: storing the data is no longer a challenge. If you want someone (businesses, governments, etc.) to not store data about every citizen of the U.S., you need laws, regulations, and checks and balances.