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The ECHELON report (europa.eu)
41 points by motters on May 30, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Interesting tidbit from the report. TLDR: US companies getting an edge on contracts due to echelon.

S. whereas, during the visit by the delegation from the Temporary Committee to the US, authoritative sources confirmed the US Congress Brown Report, indicating that 5% of intelligence gathered via non-open sources is used as economic intelligence; whereas it was estimated by the same sources that this intelligence surveillance could enable US industry to earn up to US$ 7 billion in contracts,


This is a PDF, from 2001.


I think what this comment means is that the title should have (2001) and [PDF] in it to provide useful information to the readers.


Yes, that was what I meant. Sorry for my English.


Submitter, what do you feel we should take away from this report? This has been pretty well covered in the news, at least here in NL. Is there anything in particular you wish to point out?




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