So the UK intelligence wants the capability provided by the Echelon surveillance network back? It's actually not as chilling in the sense that this would be no

So the UK intelligence wants the capability provided by the Echelon surveillance network back? It's actually not as chilling in the sense that this would be nothing new - rather, I'm sure the spooks are grieving the fact that people are moving to secure technologies. I'm pretty sure that before the internet no envelope or phone call was inaccessible.