05-19-2006, 01:02 PM
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My favorite part:
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But the system is so widespread all sorts of private communications, often of a sensitive commercial nature, are hoovered up and analysed.
Journalist Duncan Campbell has spent much of his life investigating Echelon. In a report commissioned by the European Parliament he produced evidence that the NSA snooped on phone calls from a French firm bidding for a contract in Brazil. They passed the information on to an American competitor, which won the contract.
"There's no safeguards, no remedies, " he said, "There's nowhere you can go to say that they've been snooping on your international communications. Its a totally lawless world."
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