NSA shifts to e-mail, Web, data-mining dragnet (The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com)

Recent evidence suggests that the NSA has been focusing on widespread monitoring of e-mail messages and text messages, recording of Web browsing, and other forms of electronic data-mining, all done without court supervision.

Taken together, those activities raise unique privacy and oversight concerns greater than those posed by large-scale monitoring of voice communications.