IMO that's the CCP comms gear. Surely they are not collecting data with no access to it until they can recover it at the 'end' of it's mission. They're getting real time data. It's why delaying at all only makes it worse.
In 1997 it became known that United States Customs investigators had used the name "Tholian Web" for a technique for embroiling child porn enthusiasts in internet conversations to trick them into illegal activity. By 1997 it had triggered hundreds of prosecutions.
Political scientists have compared the metaphor of the entrapment in this episode with the deep challenges politicians and administrators feel when confronted with competing factions and lobby groups.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19970918&id=r6ZJAAAAIBAJ&pg=5044,632985&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237531290_Pimps_and_Predators_on_the_Internet_Globalizing_the_Sexual_Exploitation_of_Women_and_Children
http://web.iaincirebon.ac.id/ebook/moon/PoliticalScience/ChadRMillerETDdissertation.pdf