FC: Swiss Senate approves 40M francs for Echelonesque spy stations

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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A pass with babelfish says in part:

                 As the "daily indicator" reported on 20 November, large
                 receiving antennas are toward the information stream to be
                 directed, those between mobile telephones, fax devices and
                 computers over satellite be exchanged in the context of this
                 Hightech project in a military system in home-shrank and in
                 the Swisscom ground station in Leuk VS. With most modern
                 electronics the enormous data stream is to be searched for
                 given attraction words. Which sounds traitorous, is to be
                 registered automatically and be analysed by forty additional
                 specialists. 

                 Pierre Alain Gentil wanted to know [...]
                 who is to exactly hear the international
                 telephone and fax traffic for which purpose - and who will
                 control this. He asked also, who will archive the registered
                 information and who has everything on it access. 

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From: "Manuel Schmitt" <mgschmitt () hotmail com>
To: <info () epic org>
Cc: <declan () well com>
Subject: Swiss Senate debates Echelon-like investment, hints at Echelon
participation
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 12:00:22 -0800
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http://www.tages-anzeiger.ch/991208/96131.HTM
 
Sorry, in German
 
Manuel Schmitt
 
Diskussionslos hat der Ständerat rund 40 Millionen Franken für Horchstationen
des Nachrichtendienstes bewilligt. Nur einer stellte höflich Fragen. 
 
Without debate, the (Swiss) Senate approves a credit of 40 Mio. Francs for
listening stations for the intelligence service. Only one (Senator) asks
polite
questions.




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