Meh. The call itself, and the data about the call, traverse the telephone network. The data about the call, the metadata, is being logged and stored. Yes, by th

Meh. The call itself, and the data about the call, traverse the telephone network. The data about the call, the metadata, is being logged and stored. Yes, by the time it gets to an NSA storage device, it's no longer "meta," but at the time the human made a call and generated the metadata, it was metadata. This is the tag we've chosen to stick on it. That the tag maybe should change doesn't really change the privacy implications, and would only serve to confuse the conversation to a populace that already doesn't seem to care.