Echelon is over 50 years old international global surveillance system that preserves many secrets which can affect the global community one or the other way.
Reading Duncan Campbell's article about Echelon got me thinking of powerful infotechnological (surveillance) systems, because actually no form of communication can be kept secret. (Unless you don't write a letter to yourself and hold it in locker, but then again it is not communication with the other part but more like thinking to youself.) In other words - in virtual world there is no absolute privacy.
Echelon system has been improved in time, but its core has remained. The collected information should prevent bigger threats and dangers in world. Still there have been major disasters (WTC, etc), but at same time we don't know what kind of catastrophes have been prevented so far.
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