"Echelon" Global Eavesdropping Scheme Dwarfs Murdoch's News of the World
Submitted on July 24, 2011
By Sherwood Ross - July 20, 2011
...[A] global eavesdropping scheme being run today by the United States and Great Britain dwarfs anything that Rupert Murdoch's editors at The News of The World (TNTW) ever dared attempt...Launched in the 1970s to spy on Soviet satellite communications, the [National Security Agency] and its junior partners in Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand operate ECHELON, which is a network of massive, highly automated interception stations covering the globe...
