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*   actual operation in May 1977 and by 1990 had 1,812 members, and connected
*   3,049 banks and securities industry participants in eight-four countries.
*
*   In 1993 SWIFT began asking users of its messaging system to include a
*   purpose of payment in all messages, as well as payers, payees, and
*   intermediaries. This type of arrangement would allow NSA computers
*   to use keyword monitoring to scan for any names in which they were
*   interested.


!   FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, Senate Judiciary Committee, June 4, 1997
!
!   NOT THAT LONG AGO, NO ONE PERCEIVED THAT TELEPHONE SYSTEMS COULD BECOME
!   UNTAPPABLE, THE NECESSITY FOR STRONG PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL, STATE,
!   FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IS MORE URGENT.


*   Electronic Privacy Information Center, http://www.epic.org
*
*   "As a means of espionage, writs of assistance and general warrants
*   are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppression when compared
*   with wiretapping."  ---Mr. Justice Brandeis, 277 U.S. 438 (6/4/1928)
*
*
*      European Union and FBI launch a global surveillance system
*      -------- ----- --- --- ------ - ------ ------------ ------
*
*   The EU, in cooperation of the FBI of the USA, is launching a system of
*   global surveillance of communications to combat "serious crime" and to
*   protect "national security".
*
*   But to do this they are creating a system which can monitor everyone
*   and everything.
*
*   At the first meeting of the new Council of Justice and Home Affairs
*   Ministers in Brussels on 29-30 November 1993 they adopted the following
*   Resolution on "the interception of telecommunications" which speaks for
*   itself and reproduced here in full:
*