Have you ever heard of Echelon?

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from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: ECHELON is a name used to describe a highly secretive world-wide signals intelligence and analysis network said to be run by the UKUSA Community (composed of intelligence agencies of five English-speaking nations), that has been reported by a number of sources including, in 2001, a committee of the European Parliament (EP report[1]).

Answer 1

The noose is tightening further...

Answer 2

ECHELON owes it's origins to the British Y-Service of the 1930s, created originally by radio ham operators, who devised a method of pinpointing a transmitter by arranging for several listening stations to tune into the signal and once the max signal was determined, then to get a compass bearing on that signal. Where the 'crossed hairs' [so to speak] meet on the map, is the location of the transmitter.

The word ECHELON simply means LINE or RANKING.

The British and US intelligence gathering industry have worked closely together since before WW2. Most people are unaware that the code breaking activities at Bletchly Park were very much a joint UK-US effort and that as early as 1940 [before the US was actually in the war] Americans were busy at Bletchly - code busting work etc.

Let's be sure about one thing. No transmission of any kind can possibly be made on planet Earth without it being detected.

GCHQ is at Cheltenham. Dotted around the UK are hundreds of 'listening stations'. The same across Europe and also on ships at sea.

They are reading this too.

Answer 3

In the greatest surveillance effort ever established, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has created a global spy system, codename ECHELON, which captures and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax, email and telex message sent anywhere in the world. ECHELON is controlled by the NSA and is operated in conjunction with the Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) of England, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, the Australian Defense Security Directorate (DSD), and the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand. These organizations are bound together under a secret 1948 agreement, UKUSA, whose terms and text remain under wraps even today.

Answer 4

Old news. There's (allegedly) a similar system called RAPTOR which scans emails.

Answer 5

Its got to do with special forces, you know bang bang neck cuts