Although I despise the likes of Alex jones who blow everything out of proportion and completely make up or misinterpret 90% of the information they convey, what the governments are doing is fucking wrong. It's disgusting.
It's literally big brother. They record who you call, when you called them, where you were, and where the other person was. That's a huge violation of my (and your) privacy. I don't do anything illegal, as a matter of fact I despise crime and criminals, but that's exactly why the government has no business gathering data on me without a warrant issued by a judge or my consent as per due process of law.
I'm no conspiracy theorist nor am I paranoid, but I'm pretty sure that whatever they do with the data they collect had more to do with spying on law abiding citizens, circumventing due process of law, than catching terrorists.
Even if the government does indeed only use the data on specific targeted terrorist suspects (which I'm pretty sure they don't), I'm not sure that the effectiveness the program warrants the ASTRONOMICAL COSTS surely associated with such large scale data capturing operation. It's our (taxpayer) money being spent, there should be accountability. They should demonstrate the effectiveness by showing us results (which most likely don't exist).
Either way, I'm all for security and upholding the law, and that in itself includes upholding the laws that protect citizens from being arbitrarily investigated without due process or probable cause.