Why is ECHELON a threat?
The UKUSA Agreement makes each of the member nations COMINT agencies surrogates for each of the others when it comes to monitoring their own citizens. Sharing information sounds good at first, until you realize that they are monitoring much of what you say. Let’s look at what can happen. Consider this scenario. An Echelon monitoring station in the UK picks up your private conversation with your accountant. You mention that, “My son threw a long bomb and won the game on Saturday.” The equipment detects the trigger word “bomb” in your conversation and automatically forwards the recorded conversation to a live person for analysis. Now obviously, the “bomb” in this case was a football pass and the analyst will understand that. But, in the process of listening to the conversation, he learn that you were discussing some gray areas in the tax code. In the spirit of cooperation with the UKUSA Agreement, that information is forwarded to the IRS. Even if you called your accountant back five minu
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