Documentary on ECHELON - The Spy System

Remember ECHELON? The über-secretive worldwide intelligence sharing network that various activists once tried to poison by generating fake suspicious traffic using predefined keywords? Well, the system is still operating, and with the lack of transparency in the participating country's use and abuse of the technology, all we need is an EU alternative competing with the original.

Watch this excellent half an hour long documentary and find out : "What exactly is Echelon? How can it invade privacy, yet protect liberty? How did this billion-dollar system miss the September 11th attacks? In a riveting hour, we uncover the mysterious, covert world of NSA's electronic espionage."