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In total information awareness it doesn't matter how small or large a group you're looking for. It will find them.
Granted, since a judge's warrant is needed in order to use any discovery in a court of law, and the courts are really backed up from the hill stalling on hearing appointees (Got make that negro fail!), it is unlikely. On the other hand, prosecutors love cases where juries can be easily swung by the ick factor, so bestiality is always win win in their favor. And there's something else to consider.
Whereas a warrant is required for trial, none is required for processing a background check. Where I work employees with access to confidential material have to submit passwords for private email, social networking sites and their ISPs which the company hands over to a private investigators. I'm a freelance contractor who only does infrastructure so I'm in the clear (Thank God for capitalized medicine).
It's like the in the analogy of the Internet being the Old West, only now the open ranges are being divided up by rich ranchers and barbed wire fences.