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The European Parliament formed a temporary Committee of Enquiry to investigate ECHELON abuses. This committee published a report stating that ECHELON does indeed exist and that individuals should strongly consider encrypting their emails and other Internet messages. However, the panel was unable to confirm suspicions that ECHELON is used to conduct industrial espionage, due to a lack of evidence.
But the committee says ordinary individuals and companies are now being spied on, and they should routinely encode their e-mails and faxes if they want them to remain private. Sending an unencrypted e-mail, they say, is like posting a letter without an envelope.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1357264.stm
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Report on the existence of a global system for intercepting private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system), PE 305.391 (July 11, 2001, http://www2.europarl.eu.int).The European Parliament formed a temporary Committee of Enquiry to investigate ECHELON abuses. This committee published a report stating that ECHELON does indeed exist and that individuals should strongly consider encrypting their emails and other Internet messages. However, the panel was unable to confirm suspicions that ECHELON is used to conduct industrial espionage, due to a lack of evidence.
But the committee says ordinary individuals and companies are now being spied on, and they should routinely encode their e-mails and faxes if they want them to remain private. Sending an unencrypted e-mail, they say, is like posting a letter without an envelope.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1357264.stm
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