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BrianaV


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If you think the government is watching your every move, that's crazy, but if you think the government is too good or too honest to try it, that's naive. Whether in the name of fighting crime, communism, terrorism, anarchy, military enemies, or just in the name of patriotism, our government has watched us before and will watch us again. As technology improves, privacy as we know it will inevitably evaporate... the best we can hope for is the power to watch the watchers.

Project Echelon (1947-Present)

Possible British Echelon FacilityPublic domain. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
For six decades, the global Project Echelon has been used to surveil an unknown amount of material with an unknown degree of specificity. While defenders of the project claim that its technology is only used in legal ways, some charge that it is easily abused--and a few have even argued that Echelon has been used to illegally assist with strategy in international business deals.



http://civilliberty.about.com/od/waronterror/tp/Surveillance-History.htm



evileye .... 

What other government surveillance programs are there that we don't know about?

THE GOVERNMENT IS WATCHIN'


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dont do anything you would be ashamed of doing and you have no problems. let them watch...

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I don't see an explanation of what it is and how it works. PLus I like having an audience for most things I do.

Ok really though they have no need to spend billions monitoring normal citizens but rather law breakers. You call it naive I call it common sense.

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Bonemail-(Christophe K) wrote:

I don't see an explanation of what it is and how it works. PLus I like having an audience for most things I do.

Ok really though they have no need to spend billions monitoring normal citizens but rather law breakers. You call it naive I call it common sense.



Here's some common sense for ya...

check it out ...into depth of Project Echelon.

 

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/echelon_011121-1.html


-- Edited by BrianaV on Thursday 9th of April 2009 02:46:13 AM

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Are you against terrorist plots, drug dealers' plans, and political and diplomatic intelligence that Echelon has uncovered? Don't break the law=Not getting in trouble with the law?

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BrianaV wrote:

 

Bonemail-(Christophe K) wrote:

I don't see an explanation of what it is and how it works. PLus I like having an audience for most things I do.

Ok really though they have no need to spend billions monitoring normal citizens but rather law breakers. You call it naive I call it common sense.



Here's some common sense for ya...

check it out ...into depth of Project Echelon.

 

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/echelon_011121-1.html


-- Edited by BrianaV on Thursday 9th of April 2009 02:46:13 AM

 


Straight from the article you posted.

There has been a capability for many years to listen for specific words, to filter them out. But in terms of listening to every conversation or every email throughout the world, that's just wild speculation," Best told SPACE.com.


He just said like the rest of the article that this is all just speculation and people being paranoid. Did you even read the article?



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Is it what happened in the past thats creepin the government out? I dont think they can monitor every single person in the U.S. Its impossible.

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I don't think there is any reason to be worried about it or oppose it unless there is something you don't want them to find out about you...and if you dont want them to find out, thats probably because its wrong and you shouldnt be doing it anyway.

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exactly, if ur not doing anything wrong u dont have to worry...if theyre that paranoid that they have to spy then we cant do anything about it....just dont do anything illegal and we wouldnt have to worry

personally i dont really care....and things like this was made legal under Patriot Act 2001, so disagreeing with them isnt gonna do much if anything.

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