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> It's simple really: while Slashdot commenters et al had been murmuring about Echelon and the NSA for years already, there was no evidence. Does the European
by Mediterraneo10 7y ago
> It's simple really: while Slashdot commenters et al had been murmuring about Echelon and the NSA for years already, there was no evidence.
Does the European Parliament's 2000 ECHELON report not count? I would say that there was plenty of evidence around, but the attacks of September 11 simply obscured the prior debates about telecommunications privacy in press coverage.