It's not an error. Some agencies/jurisdictions, are doing this now. They can't monitor your content, but they can get WHO you called, WHEN you called, and the NUMBER you called - no warrant required. This is "metadata", and it's the same thing the NSA is getting on all of us.
"Your metadata is now my data" Say hello to "1984"
The Patriot act and others like it, have substantially broadened the scope of legal intrusion by the gov't, into our lives.
WAKE UP, PEOPLE! We need to repeal most, if not all, of the provisions in these laws. Conservatives and Libertarians - hell, everyone concerned with individual liberty, have been talking about this for years already.