Privacy organisation Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties has submitted its objections to Internet surveillance ahead of a meeting in the European Parliament today. A European parliamentary committee is due to discuss the controversial global surveillance system Echelon and the . . .
Privacy organisation Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties has submitted its objections to Internet surveillance ahead of a meeting in the European Parliament today. A European parliamentary committee is due to discuss the controversial global surveillance system Echelon and the involvement of European countries. The UK has always refused to comment on allegations that it is involved with the surveillance network.

According to Cyber-Rights, the UK would be in serious breach of the Treaty of the European Union if allegations of its involvement in Echelon are found to be true. "Secret surveillance and interception of all forms of communications including Internet communications, cannot be acceptable in democratic societies," the submission reads. While Cyber Rights welcomes the investigation into Echelon it also calls for accountability in the global interception of communications.

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