Part of the problem is defining wholesale surveillance. I don't think we are to the point of having everything stored by the NSA (in terms of all content we pr

Part of the problem is defining wholesale surveillance. I don't think we are to the point of having everything stored by the NSA (in terms of all content we produce, send, or exchange). I think it is quite likely that the NSA does in fact store their most interesting subset of broad data (cdrs etc) along with a narrower subset of content. If that isn't wholesale surveillance, then we aren't to that level yet. But in the end what I have said for a while is that it doesn't matter. The NSA doesn't need to store your Facebook stuff on their servers because Facebook is doing it for them. The scary thing is that the interesting subset that the NSA has to pipe back is a small fraction of what they can go through if they ever decide to make you a target of an investigation, so in that sense we are under wholesale surveillance and the NSA is just controlling a very small piece.