you know...all this being watched stuff bothers me...we are paying them to not only hunt us but they are sucking up all our bandwidth to do so.
Really, this monitoring takes connectivity which means, given the sheer volume of data being monitored, a lot of bandwidth. And they already admit to monitoring all cellular traffic (it's to save the children after all). Well that means the data has to be diverted somewhere along the way, right? And to make it happen it is surely being transmitted over the same wires we all use. So who is the real bandwidth hog? I say the NSA and their ilk.
The task of monitoring has to double, at least, the bandwidth needed for a phone call or email. Apply scaling to that and there is a bubble that needs popping for sure. hehe