> > Careful, they might hear you
> >
> > By DUNCAN CAMPBELL
> >
> > Australia has become the first country
> > openly to admit that it takes part in a global
> > electronic surveillance system that
> > intercepts the private and commercial
> > international communications of citizens and
> > companies from its own and other countries.
The author of the above, Duncan Campbell, has been writing on electronic surveillance since the 1970s and recently authored an extensive report on same for the European Parliament, a portion of which is archived on his website at:
http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/stoa_cover.htm
Lots of info therein for anyone who's concerned about the rapid erosion of our "privacy" in the latter half of the century.
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/ dave /