> NSA systems are designed to go after certain "selectors"—a name, email address, or phone number. But if that selector is simply mentioned, for instance, in a single email, "NSA will acquire a copy of the entire inbox, not just the individual email messages that contains the tasked selector."
> "Hypothetically, under 12333 the NSA could target a single foreigner abroad," Tye continued then. "And hypothetically if, while targeting that single person, they happened to collect every single Gmail/Facebook message on the company servers from everyone—then the NSA could keep and use the data from those three billion other people. That's called 'incidental collection.' I will not confirm or deny that that is happening, but there is nothing in 12333 to prevent that from happening."