The issue focused on how to deal with the problem of "unwanted" data on the internet when it gets into the hands of the NSA, according to The Wall Street Journal.

"The government's collection of Americans' data, including emails of foreigners, is a key tool for intelligence gathering," the WSJ reports. "The government's collection of Americans' data, including emails of foreigners, is a key tool for intelligence gathering."

Privacy advocates argue that this program is a massive data collection