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The National Security Agency
The National Security Agency: proud sponsor of ECHELON and other top quality information extractors!
MIT Distribution Site for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
PGP or Pretty Good (TM) Privacy is a high-security cryptographic software application that allows people to exchange messages with both privacy and authentication. Get it today!
ECHELONwatch
Brought to you by the venerable American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), this site is designed to encourage public discussion of this potential threat to civil liberties, and to urge the governments of the world to protect our rights.
European Parliament Temporary Committee on the Echelon Interception System
The European Parliament Temporary Committee on the Echelon Interception System's site includes member details, working and meeting documents, and STOA studies.
Exposing the Global Surveillance System
"In the late 1980s, in a decision it probably regrets, the US prompted New Zealand to join a new and highly secret global intelligence system. The system allows spy agencies to monitor most of the world's telephone, e-mail, and telex communications."
Jam ECHELON Day
The folks at WireTapped.net not only encourage you to jam ECHELON but have a huge number of relevant links on ECHELON and privacy in general.
Interception Capabilities 2000
A report on ECHELON from the European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA). This report was prepared by Duncan Campbell, a British investigative reporter.
European Parliament Releases Espionage Report
"We are not talking about a trivial thing here . . .we cannot stop them, they will continue, said the author of a recent report by the European Parliament on US spying, with the help of Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand."
Party Line: Civil Liberties
Now, it's no secret that governments spy on each other . . .But the ECHELON system is a whole new critter; it doesn't monitor the communications of just Saddam Hussein and his merry men, or the post-Soviet purveyors of glow-in-the-dark explosives - nope, the ECHELON system keeps an eye on everybody.
European Union in the US: Press Statement on Echelon Interception System
This European Union press statement (May 10, 2001), by chairman Carlos Coelho, expresses frustation at being snubbed by the CIA and NSA. "We are very disappointed by the last-minute reluctance of the CIA and the NSA to meet our delegation in spite of the advanced preparations that had been made."
Big Brother Is Watching!
"A new report commissioned by the European Parliament has officially confirmed the existence of what it says is a gigantic electronic spy network that monitors almost all phone, fax and other electronic communications . . ."
World Global Spy Network Revealed
Australian Government admits that Echelon exists: this is a big story, broken by the good old BBC.
US Spy System Under Attack
This BBC News story (February 23, 2000) reveales that the Europeans are pissed off at the US for having been actively spying on EVERYONE the whole world over, since at least the end of World War II, and now they are going to 'investigate' the ECHELON spy system. The British are suspected in helping the US in its endeavors, according to the European Parliament. The US has been using the spy system to win well-paying business contracts, outbidding their European counterparts due to inside knowledge as to what competitors' plans are.
NSA Offers Congress Explanation Of Listening Operation
This Fox News report (February 27, 2000) details a letter provided to Associated Press by NSA Chief of Staff for Legislative Affairs, Kenneth A. Heath, claiming that the NSA conducts its investigations in accordance with constitutional, ethical, and legal standards. The letter came at a time when the low-profile agency was in the midst of a wide-ranging internal department regeneration.
EU Battle Lines Drawn as Security Challenge to Data Privacy Grows
This Irish Times article (June 1, 2001), by Karlin Lillington, reveals that the European parliament is advising European businesses to use encryption regularly in order to thwart Echelon.
Hackers Ascend Upper 'ECHELON'
This Wired News article (October 6, 1999) discusses the issues. Check out the older articles at the bottom of the page for some history.
Euros Seek ECHELON Probe
This Wired News article (February 23, 2000) covers the demand by European parliamentarians that a committee investigation be established to probe allegations that the United States is using the rumoured ECHELON surveillance system for European industrial espionage.
Euros Continue Echelon Probe
This Wired News article (April 24, 2001), by Declan McCullagh, details the European Parliament Temporary Committee on the Echelon Interception System's planned US visit, in May 2001, to discuss the geo-economics of global surveillance.
U.S. Echelon Snub Angers Europe
This Wired News article (May 18, 2001), by Steve Kettman, details the European Parliament's reply to the US snub of a delegation about Echelon. "The Europeans believe that Echelon, thought to be operated by the National Security Agency, is used by the United States to conduct industrial espionage."
You Are Being Watched
This Age article (June 2, 2001), by Garry Barker, examines how you live in a surveillance society: Echelon, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), mobile phone tracking, and credit card/loyalty schemes.
Cooking Up a Charter for Snooping
"In 1947 the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand signed a national security pact . . .to seal an intelligence bond in which a common national security objective was created."
ECHELON Global Surveillance by The National Security Agency
"[The] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny."
CIA Chief Says US Doesn't Spy for Firms
This Excite News article (March 1, 2000) quotes CIA Director George Tenet (in a Reuters interview) defending his organization against European allegations that the reputed ECHELON spy system is being used for geo-economic espionage.
Euro MPs Rally Support for Echelon Inquiry
This Voila AFP article (March 29, 2000) details efforts by European politicians to demand a probe into the Echelon network, which they claim is being used for industrial espionage.
Somebody's Listening!
ECHELON 2? Maybe. Project 415 is a top-secret new global surveillance system that can tap into a billion calls a year in the UK alone.
Spying on The Spies
"There needs to be some democratic and constitutional oversight of how and against who the [ECHELON] system is being used."
ECHELON: Online Surveillance
Nifty picture of the ECHELON intercept station at Menwith Hill, England. Plus an in-depth report.
Spookwords
Sprinkle a few in your next e-mail, fax, phone call, whatever and help clog up the global spy machine.
Secret Power: New Zealand's Role In The International Spy Network
A site designed to promote Nicky Hager's book on ECHELON, with online versions of the first two chapters and forewards by David Lange (Prime Minister of New Zealand 1984-89); and Jeffrey Richelson, a leading authority on United States intelligence agencies.
Spies Like US
"The ECHELON system forms part of the UK/USA system, but unlike many of the electronic spy systems developed during the Cold War, ECHELON is designed primarily for non-military targets: governments, organizations and businesses in virtually every country."
Definition of ECHELON
ECHELON (noun; english; circa 1947) - a very bad thing if you like your privacy.
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