Andreas Broeckmann on Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:49:11 +0200 (MET DST) |
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a friend from Brazil writes: hello, i think it can be interesting to you. last 21, the french newspaper "liberation" published some articles about an European Union document, from december 97, called "une appreciation des technologies de controle politique". the main subject was a global surveillance system, echelon, coordinated by United States (with the collaboration of New Zeland, Australia, Great Britain and Canada). Echelon uses 25 Intelstat satellites which cover all satellite telecommunications on earth - what means telephonic conversation, web messages, email, fax, etc. all information are precessed by computers and send to the NAtional Security Agency in US. They can get any kind of information - political, industrial, military, etc. The french deputy Alain Pompidou proposes that UE construct a similar project to profit this information espionage system. in a interview, britain deputy Glynn Ford explains how the system work: each country list some keywords; all informations (from telephonic conversations 'till emails) which have these words (what can be either drug or industrial information) are automatically processed by the computers and send to the country which want them. He says that one country doesn't know the other country "dictionaire", and he thinks the major problem is to know if and how some organizations - like islamic jihad or terrorist groups - use the system, their dictionaires, and how they use the informations. all these articles can be found, in french, at http://www.liberation.com/quotidien/semaine/980421mara.html --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: [email protected]