Okay, it really is everybody getting spied on

According to the NY Times:

"The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system's main arteries, they said.

"As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the N.S.A. has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said."

Last Monday I blogged:

I've just discovered a web page from EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) that covers its concerns about TIA, along with history and links to documents. Although the Congress did its best to stop the development of new technologies for data-mining, there are reasons to believe that these efforts were not wholy curtailed.

Everyday there will be something new. I wonder when Joe Citizen is going to have had enough?