IP: "Spies like US": Global Electronic Surveillance

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

From: Marcel Waldvogel <mwa () tik ee ethz ch>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 98 15:00:14 +0100
To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>




[for IP]


Dave,


in its December 16, 1997 issue, the Daily Telegraph published
excerpts from an European Commission report, stating that the NSA
has been performing large-scale surveillance (code-named ECHELON)
on European telephone, fax, and e-mail communications for more than
a decade now.


-Marcel


Full text at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000602131144806rtmo=0sKsx2bq&atmo=0sKsx2
bq&pg=/et/97/12/16/ecspy16.html


Spies like US


A European Commission report warns that the United States has
developed an extensive network spying on European citizens and we
should all be worried. Simon Davies reports


A GLOBAL electronic spy network that can eavesdrop on every telephone,
email and telex communication around the world will be officially
acknowledged for the first time in a European Commission report to
be delivered this week.
[...]