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European Parliament: L'affaire: ECHELON: Les travaux du Parlement européen sur le système global d'interception, 1998 - 200

05 November 2014

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The European Parliament has published a Study that discusses concerns on the security and confidentiality of telecommunications and the violation by the interception system, Echelon. The system had been developed and managed by the signatories of the UK-USA Treaty.

Although the Echelon affair is no longer subject of debate in the press the EU is launching a reform on access to data of its citizens, its institutions and enterprises. It is important to put in place a global approach on data protection, enforce the rights guaranteeing the protection of privacy online, and to have 28 uniform national laws on this issue. Viviane Reding, former European Commissioner of Justice, said that "after the spying scandal of data by the US, the protection of data is no longer just an a competitive advantage. Europa needs strong and uniform legislation on data protection, which will provide more guarantees to enterprises and a stronger protection to citizens". This debate is more than current with the revelations of Edward Snowden and recent targets of phone tapping of German Chancelor Angela Markel and French diplomats stationed in the US.

See the full text: L'affaire: ECHELON: Les travaux du Parlement européen sur le système global d'interception, 1998 - 2002 (pdf)

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