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[FYI] ECHELON
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- Subject: [FYI] ECHELON
- From: Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:18:30 +0100
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The Government Is
Reading Your E-mail
With the Echelon program, the U.S.
and its allies are collaborating to
monitor the Internet
FROM THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1999
In the past month a series of announcements from
the governments of Australia, the U.K., Canada,
France, Germany, Sweden and the U.S., among others,
has brought to light the existence of a massive
international electronic surveillance network known
as "Echelon." Its existence was officially
confirmed by the Australian intelligence agency
back on May 23. In a nutshell, Echelon is a joint
project undertaken by the U.S. and its allies to
monitor satellite transmissions, phone calls and
the Internet.
[...]
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