GP was asking how this is different than what the NSA does. The poster above me said it was because China acts on that information, but the US does not.
I provided evidence America does act on information.
Who needs camps when you can drone strike them? [1]
> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”
> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”
But I suppose you’re right, the US only murders tens of millions of foreigners.