There's no upside to mass surveillance.

"A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans’ domestic phone calls and text messages cost $100 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigation..."

https://nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/politics/nsa-phone-program.html

.onion: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2020/02/25/us/politics/nsa-phone-program.html