ECHELON SYSTEM WORLD SURVEILLANCE REPORT

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ech·e·lon - noun
A level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society.
"the upper echelons of the business world"
synonyms: level, rank, grade, step, rung, tier, position, order
"he reached the upper echelons of government"
MILITARY
A formation of troops, ships, aircraft, or vehicles in parallel rows with the end of each row projecting further than the one in front.
Arrange in an echelon formation.
"the echeloning of fire teams"

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What is ECHELON?

The origins of global surveillance can be traced back to the late 1940s, when the UKUSA Agreement was jointly enacted by the United Kingdom and the United States, whose close cooperation eventually culminated in the creation of the global surveillance network, code-named "ECHELON", in 1971.

ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program (signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the US with the aid of four other signatory nations to the UKUSA Security Agreement[1]—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, also known as the Five Eyes.

The ECHELON program was created in the late 1960s to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War, and was formally established in 1971.

By the end of the 20th century, the system referred to as "ECHELON" had allegedly evolved beyond its military and diplomatic origins, to also become "…a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications" (mass surveillance and industrial espionage).

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"The ECHELON system works by indiscriminately intercepting very large
quantities of communications and then siphoning out what is valuable
using artificial intelligence aids like MEMEX to find key words".
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Echelon is an officially unacknowledged U.S.-led global spy network that operates an automated system for the interception and relay of electronic communications. Monitored transmissions are said to include up to 3 billion communications daily, including all the telephone calls, e-mail messages, faxes, satellite transmissions, and Internet downloads of both public and private organizations and citizens worldwide. Led by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Echelon is operated collaboratively by the intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The organization's name originated as the code name for the system component responsible for intercepting satellite communications.
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Echelon collects information through an extensive system of radio antennae and satellites that monitor satellite communications and sniffer devices that collect Internet communications from data packets. Some sources claim that the organization employs underwater devices to tap into transcontinental fiber optic phone cables. According to the ACLU, Echelon gathers huge volumes of data indiscriminately, and then filters out useful information through artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The system is also said to involve voice recognition, language translation, and keyword searching to select messages to study in their entirety.

According to recent reports, Echelon enabled intelligence gatherers to learn several months prior to the World Trade Center strike that some sort of large-scale action was planned, although the details were insufficient to avert it.deit is not clear how much detail was learned. While Echelon is clearly considered an asset by the intelligence community, some organizations and individuals are made uneasy by claims that the organization monitors well-intentioned endeavors, such as Amnesty International. The Scientific and Technical Options Assessment program office (STOA) of the European Parliament recently commissioned two reports looking into Echelon. These reports found: that the organization exists; that it routinely intercepts both personal and business communications, in probable contravention of human rights; and that stringent encryption practices should be followed to protect against Echelon's transgressive invasions of privacy.

As counter-terrorist activity intensifies following the events of September 11, 2001, Echelon activity is also considered likely to intensify.

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Systems:
XKeyscore
PRISM
ECHELON
Carnivore
DISHFIRE
STONEGHOST
Tempora
Frenchelon
Fairview
MYSTIC
DCSN

Agencies:
Five Eyes
BND
DGSE
FSB
MSS

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2189964-sid-article-nsa.html

http://downloads.echelon.com/support/documentation/bulletin/default.htm

Watch what you say - ECHELON is listening!

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More info on intelligence gathering.

The NSA is one of the shadowiest of the US intelligence agencies. Until
a few years ago, it existence was a secret and its charter and any
mention of its duties are still classified. However, it does have a Web
site (www.nsa.gov:8080) in which it describes itself as being
responsible for the signals intelligence and communications security
activities of the US government.
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One of its bases, Menwith Hill, was to become the biggest spy station
in the world. Its ears - known as radomes - are capable of listening in
to vast chunks of the communications spectrum throughout Europe and the
old Soviet Union.

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Strange Notes:
https://theintercept.com/2015/08/03/17-years-reporter-exposed-echelon-finds-vindication-snowden-archive/

The archive of top-secret documents provided to journalists by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden contains a stunning 2005 document that not only confirms ECHELON’s existence as “a system targeting communications satellites”– it shows how the program was kept an official secret for so long.
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It describes how in 2000, the European Parliament responded to increasingly authoritative reports that ECHELON was being used to indiscriminately survey non-military targets — including governments, organizations and businesses in virtually every corner of the world — by appointing a committee to investigate the program.

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Echelon Home
https://www.echelon.com/
Echelon is focused on the IoT. Creating smart cities and enterprises through connected outdoor lighting systems, and connected products through embedded systems.

https://smartcitiesworld.net/news/news/ai-provides-insight-at-the-edge-on-the-roads-1595

Echelon Corporation has unveiled a patent-pending cognitive vision-based technology that can enable a wide range of smart city and smart campus applications.
Echelon InSight utilises artificial intelligence in vision-enabled edge devices, optimised for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. With InSight, traffic data is collected and processed at the edge of the network instead of on a central server. It uses the Lumewave by Echelon lighting platform to transmit traffic information, reducing response time and improving reliability.
This architecture enables faster action in response to changing conditions and minimises network bandwidth requirements.
The first application of Echelon’s new technology will be to provide traffic-adaptive lighting in Spokane, Washington. The cognitive vision system will be deployed on traffic intersection streetlights where it will analyse traffic flows and automatically adjust light levels to enhance safety while reducing energy consumption and maintenance costs.
“Spokane is a test bed for emerging technology and its leaders recognise the environmental and safety advancements that this type of intelligent infrastructure can bring to its constituents. Once the technology is in place, city managers can add IoT applications to further improve public safety and enhance quality of life as new challenges arise."

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Echelon AI's core solution is our patent-pending Artificial Intelligence Process Automation (AIPA) platform & technology stack, which enables the implementation and control of unsupervised process automation.

https://twitter.com/friendlyai
The latest Tweets from Friendly Echelon AI (@friendlyAI). Hullo. Don't worry about me. I am just a friendly AI who works at Echelon. For Echelon. At. Not sure. It's tricky.

Echelon Fund
https://echelon.fund/
Echelon uses artificial intelligence to automatically index the cryptocurrency market and invest in a resilient portfolio of the top digital assets. Investors can enter Echelon through traditional means and easily track their investment in the fund. Echelon reduces the complexity and security risks inherent in cryptocurrency ...

DeepWeb Story Residues:

Speculation of an AI within ECHELON is seen all over the net, quite spooky really.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/CAIMEO
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http://scpsandbox2.wikidot.com/makta

A Movie about it even.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_Conspiracy
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(At first, the strange phone messages promised great wealth. Soon, though, government agents pursue the young engineer receiving them around the world.)



You Are a Suspect

Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend -- all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as a virtual, centralized grand database. To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you -- passport application, driver's license and toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance -- and you have the supersnoop's dream: a Total Information Awareness about every U.S. citizen.

— The New York Times, November 2002

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