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Date: 1998-11-07
Echelon: EU Parlament plant Studie-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Echelon und die Rolle der NSA, was Wirtschaftsspionage über dem Luftraume Europas anbetrifft. Wenn freilich niemand anschiebt, ist es möglich, dass dies sich noch ein Jahr hinausziehen kann, weil man vor den EU-Wahlen keinen neuen transatlantischen Wickel rsikieren will . Simon Davies, Doyen der europäischen Echelon-Busters, plant zur Beschleunigung des Kontemplations/prozesses fürs Frühjahr einen ein/schlägigen Event. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Daniel Verton Nov 5, 1998 .17:00 EST The European Union is considering launching a full-scale investigation into whether the National Security Agency is abusing its massive and highly advanced surveillance network to spy on government and private groups around the world. NSA's Cold War-vintage global spying system, code-named Echelon, consists of a worldwide network of clandestine listening posts capable of intercepting electronic communications such as e-mail, telephone conversations, faxes, satellite transmissions, microwave links and fiber-optic communications traffic, according to a report commissioned by the Scientific and Technological Options Committee of the European Parliament, which is the legislative body of the European Union. .... "All e-mail, telephone and fax communications are routinely intercepted by the [NSA], transferring all target information from the European mainland via the strategic hub of London, then by satellite to Fort Meade in Maryland via the crucial hub at Menwith Hill in the...[United Kingdom]," according the report, "An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control." Menwith Hill's Silkworth computer uses voice recognition, optical character recognition and data information engines to process the collected electronic signals and then forwards the processed messages to NSA, said Patrick S. Poole, deputy director of the Center for Technology Policy at the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank specializing in privacy issues. .... Eavesdropping on nonmilitary groups has European lawmakers and privacy advocates worldwide concerned that NSA may be abusing its powers. Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, a London- based civil liberties watchdog organization, said the original report was only the first of several stages in the investigation, and the European Parliament is planning to fund an independent study of Echelon in the coming months. "There's enough interest [throughout the EU] to warrant a full-scale specific investigation [of Echelon]," Davies said. Despite what Davies described as "an extraordinary amount of effort being made to silence inquiring minds," the European Parliament and various privacy advocates also plan to form a "conference of whistle-blowers" by March 1999 in an effort to "force these agencies to the table and to account for themselves," Davies said. Eduard McVeigh, a spokesman for the European Parliament in London, said the committee has not yet decided what action to take in light of the report. "I get the impression they are not likely to do anything with it until after the European elections next June," McVeigh said. Still, several members of Parliament felt it was an urgent matter that requires further investigation, McVeigh said. .... For example, Poole said, in the 1980s Echelon was used to intercept electronic communications of Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), civilian political groups in Europe, Amnesty International and Christian ministries. Full text http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1998/1102/web-nsa-11-05- 98.html -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-11-07 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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