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The do now, via full take intelligence efforts. Whatever system they use to analyse and/or filter full take is in effect a ranking system. It is not linear but it is ordered, and sometimes not even individually ordered, and quite often probabilistic and somewhat stochastic, but ordered nonetheless.

NSA does, no ? They keep your text/voice, just in case, something comes up.

Please tell me you're kidding.