It doesn't really bother me tbh, if your a decent person and doing the right thing I cant see how this is problem, as long as they catch scum before they kill people I'm ok with it.

It's a product of the war on terror. or the war of terror, whichever your standpoint.

But the question is, if we let this go then what's next and what's after that, and what's left for our children?

A metadata of all the extremely important meme's you have uploaded.

The XKeyscore system is continuously collecting so much internet data that it can be stored only for short periods of time. Content remains on the system for only three to five days, while metadata is stored for 30 days. One document explains: "At some sites, the amount of data we receive per day (20+ terabytes) can only be stored for as little as 24 hours."

While I'm not doubting the capabilities of the NSA, and am against it for being a waste when it comes to blinding archiving web activities, the press on it is bordering on scaremongering. I haven't seen a decrease of any illegal activities online: media piracy, viruses, digital bank heist, identity theft, fraud- you name it. I haven't seen too many cases of it limiting anyone from doing whatever petty thing they want online, even without HTTPS, or even without Tor. How the **** could you possibly accurately track or give a **** about internet data from a country of a population of 313.9 million alone? The only possible thing would be file hashes, and again, if they're barely able to scratch the service of media piracy, which would be easy, the hell? So they'll log your porn searches and collect the money for the man/computer resources of doing so. What a waste.

The stuff you and I post however, is almost immediately deleted; they only have so much space.

.. and not you or me unlike some people with inflated ego's would have you believe.

Do you guys have a data retention law ?

Unlike the EU,85 Israel does not have a general data retention statute. This means that telecom operators could ostensibly delete communications data promptly after using them for billing purposes. Indeed, a possible interpretation of the purpose limitation provisions in the PPA86 is that such deletion is required by privacy law. To this end, Section 11(e) of the GSSA authorizes the Prime Minister to promulgate rules ‘regarding the retention by a licensee of categories of data according to subsection (b), for a period that he determines’. As discussed, such rules, if they have been put in place, remain secret. A similar provision is not found in the Communications Data Act, raising doubts whether telecom operators must (or even may) retain data if not required to do so under the Prime Minister's national security rules. The question of whether telecom providers are required (or indeed allowed) to retain communications data arose in the Amir Liran v Pelephone case.87 The plaintiff, a lawyer, requested that his two cellular operators delete his communications data after he settled his account. To assure the cellular operators he was not going to challenge their bills at a later stage, Liran was willing to execute a waiver of claims. He argued that retention of his communications data without a specific purpose infringes his privacy rights under the PPA. The Attorney General, who has authority to intervene in litigation in order to represent the public interest, submitted a brief in the case arguing that the Communications Data Act should be interpreted to permit data retention ‘for a reasonable period of time’. The Tel Aviv District Court accepted the Attorney General's argument, holding that absent a specific obligation to delete communications data, telecom operators were permitted to retain them. This decision was criticized by commentators, including the current author, who argued that the court misinterpreted the balance struck by the PPA between individual rights and legitimate business interests, and failed to take account of the constitutional status of the right to privacy.88

No, they are looking for very specific indicators of activity which interests them; everything else is pretty much discarded almost immediately.

Finally, the NSA is not responsible for nearly all the examples you posted, that is the area of the FBI. The NSA is responsible for collecting intelligence, not dealing with petty online crime.