. . . A different Echelon than the one we trade. . .
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Copied from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists [the keepers of the Doomsday Clock]
February 24, 2000
Echelon
On February 23, the European Parliament published a report alleging that the United States uses a global eavesdropping network called Echelon to give U.S. companies a commercial edge over their European competitors.
The report, written by freelance journalist Duncan Campbell, has spurred allegations by many European countries that the United States--which jointly runs the network with Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada--has converted its Cold War spy infrastructure into an industrial espionage network.
In the March/April Bulletin, Jeffrey Richelson, a senior fellow at the National Security Archive, surveys the available information--including recently declassified documents--about the secretive eavesdropping network. He concludes that although Echelon's activities raise serious privacy concerns, it is not the "technological Big Brother" that some make it out to be.
See:
"Desperately Seeking Signals" by Jeffrey Richelson, March/April 2000 bullatomsci.org
"The New Space Invaders: Spies in the Sky" by Peter Goodspeed (National Post, February 19, 2000)
nationalpost.com
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