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Europe weighs Echelon threat
October 13, 2000 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/soa/Europe-weighs-Echelon-threat-/0,139023165,120103047,00.htm
The European parliament is evaluating the possible dangers of Echelon, a rumored US-sponsored global surveillance network, according to a report from ZDNet France. Seven French deputies are reportedly on a fact-finding mission about Echelon which the United States is reportedly mounting in cooperation with Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the UK. According to a spokesman for Alima Boumediene-Thiery, French deputy for the Green Party, Greens in Parliament have already collected enough signatures from deputies to convene a parliamentary panel of inquiry that they hope will shed light on the UK's role in Echelon and determine why information on Echelon was slow to reach the European Community.
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