Does Europe Covet Own Echelon?
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Maurizio Turco, an Italian member of the European Parliament, shook up the last scheduled meeting of the temporary committee investigating the Echelon interception system in more ways than one Wednesday afternoon. Turco, who describes himself as a “radical,” charged that the committee’s year-long investigation may have raised international awareness about the satellite-based surveillance system, but it was in effect nothing more than a smokescreen. Wired Some Free AOL IM Tools Can Privacy Rights Survive? When it comes to privacy, ever more intrusive collection technologies are being rolled out, such as online tracking mechanisms, spyware, face recognition systems, location tracking devices and even thermal imaging, a Senate Commerce Committee panel was told today. And, Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters.com and a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, said in a written statement that “advances in ‘cloaking’ technologies are always outs
