[WSIS CS-Plenary] Merry Xmas brought to you by the NSA

[mclauglm at po.muohio.edu]

FYI:  Almost anything you might want to know about Echelon may be found here:

http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html

There's also an interesting paper on the Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Court (the result of 
FISA).

Regards,

Lisa


>Thanks Francis
>
>for both your information on some WSIS missings 
>(CS is obviously co-responsible) and for your 
>xmas wishes. I hope you did enjoy this Xmas eve 
>in a warm atmosphere.
>
>Coming back to the subject, there is another big missing in WSIS : Echelon !
>
>Isn't this big ICT machnery a global US spy 
>? Under the pretence of fighting terrorism this 
>actual Big Brother infrastructure 
>intercepts i.a. enterprise and corporate 
>communication (like Alcatel's, Thomson's and 
>Siemens')* for the benefit of US gouvernrnent 
>and ICT industry interests. However, during the 
>whole four years WSIS process I didn't even hear 
>any CS constituency (Plenary, C&T, WGs, 
>Caucuses) mentioning Echelon as a threat for 
>liberty and privacy and therefore being a real 
>WSIS issue ! Even our "infocom" experts 
>completely "forgot" this scandalous misuse of 
>ICTs by the USA and the UKUSA signatory nations. 
>This misuse didn't prevent them of signing the 
>Declaration of principles and other official 
>WSIS documents after having seriously downscaled 
>the few outcomes of this long and dispendious 
>process.
>
>This vast piracy network was set on the agenda 
>of the European Parliament in 2002 and there 
>were very revealing debates at Strasbourg based 
>on an extensive Report in two parties by Gerhard 
>Schmid (ESP) quoted A5-0264/2001.  Another 
>interesting survey, that went even farther than 
>the EP report, was carried out by the Belgian 
>parliament in february 2002. The relevant report 
>was issued by the Belgian Senate Members 
>Anne-Marie Lizin and Christian van Parys. So 
>there is lot of stuff and ground for CS to 
>discuss, conclude and propose.
>
>BTW, ITU never even mentioned Echelon in its 
>agendas despite this UN agency is responsible 
>for a "fair" telecommunication networking.
>
>Will Echelon be among our CS agenda during the 
>WSIS follow-up process ? I'll make a proposal in 
>that direction as soon as necessary. 
>
>All the best
>
>Jean-Louis Fullsack, CSDPTT
>
>* see Duncan Campbell in "IC 2000". In french : 
>Duncan Campbell - Surveillance électronique 
>planétaire, Editions Allia Paris, 2001
>
>
>
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>>  Merry Xmas brought to you by the NSA
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>>  No wonder they do not like the idea of
>>  local internet exchange gateways...
>>  Has the WGIG missed something... ?
>>  (one more item,
>>  among the many things they did miss )
>>
>>  Have fun !
>>
>>  Francis
>>
>>  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/politics/24spy.html
>>  -------------------------------------------------------
>>  December 24, 2005
>>
>>
>>  Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report
>>
>>  By ERIC LICHTBLAU
>>
>>  and JAMES RISEN
>  >
>  >

-- 
Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mass Communication & Women's Studies
Editor, Feminist Media Studies
Director of Graduate Studies, M.A. Program in Mass Communication
Union for Democratic Communications Representative,
World Summit on the Information Society

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