My point was that phone records is often used as a distraction from the rest of the programs, "see look, it's just the outside of a letter!". In reality, two t

My point was that phone records is often used as a distraction from the rest of the programs, "see look, it's just the outside of a letter!". In reality, two things are wrong: a lot of letters' insides are analyzed as well, and keeping a central database of just the outsides turns out to be a huge privacy violation, anyway.