The NSA and WARRANTLESS WIRETAPS

At the end of 2005, the New York Times revealed the government’s warrantless wiretapping program.
The  National Security Agency (NSA) is tapping American’s phones without first getting a judge to pass judgment on the need to invade a citizen’s privacy.

Jerry Nelson, Ph.D. states that…
You can tap only one phone line, but on the Internet you can only tap everything because there are no lines. Extending phone surveillance to VoIP on the Internet requires surveillance of everything we do on line. The nation’s transition in telecommunications infrastructure will be as tumultuous for civic society and constitutional law as it already has been for the financial community and the boom-to-bust industry itself.

This article contains some excellent information on how the NSA warrantless wiretap system works.