Reading the article about Echelon system surely makes one think more about the way things work in the business and defense sector. Information from the Echelon network and other parts of the global surveillance system is used by the US and its allies for diplomatic, military and commercial purposes. If needs dating back to the years of war concerned mainly military and defense questions, they now follow the information about businesses abroad to get better contracts to help the well-being of their countries. This seems highly inappropriate in the means of international competition and ethics of the action is highly questionable.
To the global community such information seeking has different effects. Firstly, if communities know about the surveillance, they probably change the way they communicate, trying to avoid being intercepted. Secondly, when being unaware of probable interception, the outcomes, contracts and new deals are altered in comparison to what they might have been without someone getting inner information. The memory storage capabilities today are growing so much that on the one hand it seems like it is possible to follow and save everything. On the other hand the load of information going around has grown at least at same speed and finding the important one needs more and more work.
To the global community such information seeking has different effects. Firstly, if communities know about the surveillance, they probably change the way they communicate, trying to avoid being intercepted. Secondly, when being unaware of probable interception, the outcomes, contracts and new deals are altered in comparison to what they might have been without someone getting inner information. The memory storage capabilities today are growing so much that on the one hand it seems like it is possible to follow and save everything. On the other hand the load of information going around has grown at least at same speed and finding the important one needs more and more work.
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