Project Echelon and Cyber Rights

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This paper examines the supporting and detracting views of the Echelon Project. It examines the project itself on only a cursory level, while discussing privacy and cyber rights in more detail.

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"After the terror attacks of September 11 advocates of free speech and privacy loudly criticized the implementation of the Patriot Act. This act greatly increased law enforcement's ability to gather evidence-critics say spy on American citizens. But a large number of privacy advocates maintain that the American government has long had the ability-and the propensity-to gather electronic data on its citizens and that this ability predates the Patriot Act as well as the September attacks..."

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