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Europe Stumbles On Echelon Spy Network
News Nearly seven months after the European Parliament adopted a report that recognised the existence of Echelon, an international spy system designed to listen in on private and commercial communications, experts say that little has been accomplished...
[March 28, 2002, 17:40]
Dutch Government Acknowledges Echelon Spy Network
News The Dutch government has publicly acknowledged the existence of the covert satellite surveillance network used by Britain, the US and other allied nations to eavesdrop on international phone calls, emails and faxes, code-named Echelon.
[January 24, 2001, 16:37]
America Uses Echelon To Spy On Britain, Say Reports
News The documents, uncovered by NBC News and Scottish investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, reveal how the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and the NSA (National Security Agency) help American firms to secure billion-dollar business contracts via...
[July 3, 2000, 10:13]
Update: America Uses Echelon To Spy On Britain
News The documents, uncovered by NBC News and Scottish investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, reveal how the CIA and the NSA (National Security Agency) help American firms to secure billion-dollar business contracts via the satellite surveillance...
[July 3, 2000, 13:10]
"Jam Echelon Day" Doomed To Failure, Say Experts
News A group of Internet activists are hoping to bring attention to the US-led communications spy network, on 21 October, with a "Jam Echelon Day", but privacy experts are certain that the protests will have a minimal effect on the sophisticated...
[July 26, 2001, 16:21]
European Parliament Urges Open Source Protection Against Echelon
News The European Parliament is suggesting that individuals and business routinely encrypt all emails to help protect them from eavesdropping by Echelon, the communications spy network. The list of targets is lengthy, with former NSA employee Wayne...
[May 24, 2001, 20:20]
Thatcher Ordered Echelon Surveillance When PM
News Earlier this week, the French government accused software giant Microsoft of working with the US National Security Agency to spy on it using Echelon. It is reported a Canadian agent spied on at least two cabinet ministers using the Echelon...
[February 25, 2000, 10:07]
European Commission Plays Down Fears Over US Snooping
News Details of Perkins' remarks were made available to the European Parliament's Temporary Echelon Committee, which is charged with investigating allegations that the US uses a satellite network -- code named Echelon -- to spy on international...
[March 5, 2001, 13:11]
Civil Libertarians To Keep An Eye On Spying
News Although the existence of the Echelon spy network has always been officially denied by the British and American governments, evidence of its operation was uncovered in 1988 by maverick journalist Duncan Campbell and it has been ceaselessly...
[November 17, 1999, 16:24]
Echelon: The French Fight Back
News We have known for some time that America has been using Echelon to spy on our businesses in France," says Nataf. A legal battle that threatens to blow the lid on the covert surveillance network Echelon will reach the courts by autumn according to...
[June 29, 2000, 11:13]
Big Brother In The Black Box
News The capability is there to spy on everyone," said Yaman Akdeniz, director of CyberRights & CyberLiberties, a prominent British campaigner, who is concerned that an increase in surveillance powers could be open to covert abuse, a topic of much...
[July 13, 2000, 9:56]
Big Brother Awards Highlight Digital Privacy Threats
News MEP Ilka Schroder, who won a Winston for her work on the European Commission committee looking into the Echelon spy network, as well as for fighting against data retention proposals that would see all email, fax, phone and Web traffic stored for...
[March 5, 2002, 12:12]
Privacy Activists Blast Echelon
News Echelon, the international spy network allegedly set up to listen in on civilians' electronic communications, will get some of its most public exposure to date this weekend, when a prominent US civil rights group runs a full-page advertisement in...
[April 12, 2001, 14:44]
Swiss Link To Echelon Follows Satellite Sale
News Australia, America, Great Britain, France, Canada and New Zealand all participate in the Echelon spy network. It is generally accepted that Echelon's extensive satellite network can pick up practically all communications signals transmitted worldwide.
[December 12, 2000, 10:40]
France Attacks Britain Over Echelon
News In the report France alleges that up to 55,000 British and American operatives have access to data gathered by Echelon's 120 spy satellites worldwide and that the system is able to process around three million electronic communications every minute.
[October 13, 2000, 17:05]
Echelon: Proof Of Its Existence
News Mike Frost, an ex-spy, told 60 Minutes that Thatcher had ordered surveillance on two cabinet colleagues using Echelon. The documents also identify four other intelligence bases that were part of the Echelon network by 1995.
[June 29, 2000, 11:07]
US Privacy Group Sues NSA Over Spy Net
News In the report, the spy network was dubbed "Echelon. We are concerned less with Echelon in particular and more with the NSA's eavesdropping practices in particular," said David Sobel, general counsel for EPIC.
[December 6, 1999, 9:25]
Privacy Group Sues NSA Over Spy Net
News In the report, the spy network was dubbed "Echelon". We are concerned less with Echelon in particular and more with the NSA's eavesdropping practices in particular," said David Sobel, general counsel for EPIC.
[December 6, 1999, 10:12]
European Parliament Restricts Access To Personal Data
News It responds to the alarming outcome of the EP's recent Echelon report, confirming the existence of a US-led communications spy network. The decision will go to a plenary session for ratification by the EP in September, on the same day that the...
[July 12, 2001, 15:54]
Hacktivists Battle Against Big Brother
News Email flew across Australia, Europe and the US, urging people to send out electronic messages containing subversive words that would jam up the so-called Echelon system, a National Security Agency project that supposedly can capture and analyze...
[October 22, 1999, 10:30]
