They use the word "collect" in that way because surveillance laws use the word "collect" in a very specific way, and making distinctions between "collect" and "

They use the word "collect" in that way because surveillance laws use the word "collect" in a very specific way, and making distinctions between "collect" and "analyze" and "intercept" is important to delineate exactly what actions people are talking about: A few definitions: to "collect" means to gather and store; to "analyze" means that a computer or human actually does something with the records; to "intercept" means that a computer or human actually listens to or records calls. http://theweek.com/article/index/245228/the-fbi-collects-all-telephone-records http://theweek.com/article/index/245228/the-fbi-collects-all...