Information from the Echelon network and other parts of the global surveillance system is used by the US and its allies for diplomatic, military and commercial purposes. It is routinely denied that these interceptions are mostly targeted for commercial and economic intelligence. After 1993 USA President Clinton established new trade and economic committees and asked from NSA to support US businesses in seeking contacts abroad. NSA constructed massive new storage and processing systems to intercept internet and new international communication networks. The new systems are capable to hold more than million terabytes of data. NSA is snooping everything – fax, email and telephone calls. The information era demands sigint agencies to develop new direct interference of computers. These methods include stealing viruses, software audio, and data bugs.
Despite the good protection of 21st century technology, our emails and phone calls are still open for the eyes on snoopers. This is mainly because NSA and its allies worked to limit and prevent the privacy of telecommunications. Their main aim was to leave communications unencrypted to have easy access and processing by their early developed systems like Echelon. Until the protections are ineffective Echelon systems will remain snooping us.
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