FC: France suing US and Britain over Echelon spying

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 13:33:15 -0500 (EST)
> From: Steve Burnett <sburnett () webslingerz com>
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Subject: France suing US & Britain over Echelon
>
> In case you hadn't seen this yet....
>
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> Steve Burnett    Admin, webslingerZ     sburnett () webslingerz com
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> France is planning on suing British and US governments after it confirmed
> the existence of P-415 Echelon electronic spy system that is capable of
> intercepting telephone conversations, faxes and e-mails.
>
> http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/02/10/timfgneur01007.html?999
>
> This is interesting: I'm still unconvinced that Echelon is the monolithic
> Big Brother that's been implied by earlier reports. However, with a major
> government seemingly convinced and acting on their belief, I'll be
> watching this to see how the US gov't handles this. Will they attempt to
> minimize the capabilities? Will they pay up & apologize? Let's see.



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