bulk collection

Surveillance data in which technology has created an opportunity to monitor a millions of people. Currently with in an indiscriminate process in which a dragnet is placed over large amounts of data. With any kind of decency, considered one of the dirtiest words (phrase) in language.

A federal appeals court has ruled the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ phone records is illegal. The program was exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden