It's related because the point of warrants is to minimise this sort of activity. But having already maxed out the amount of activity (recording all that data from everyone all the time), the warrants become pointless. The moment the data is being collected, the risk is there. Paperwork is useful ONLY to the extent it stops collection, it's not a end in itself. It's just a means to minimisation.

That is about 90% of my point. Everything ELSE is tangental. What I have written is basically the key point on mass surveillance. Everything else is at best extra and at worst irrelevant to the actual points.