NetCurrents: Echelon for the Private Sector

[Declan McCullagh]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:15:53PM -0400, Faustine wrote:
> Did you know that NetCurrents, which bills itself as "the Internet's 
> Premiere Intelligence Agency", conducts real-time monitoring of message 
> boards, chatrooms, and IRC channels, logging and producing reports on all 
> occurences of particluar keywords for their clients?
> 
> Echelon for the private sector, pure and simple. 

And what we would expect the market to do.

If you don't like it, use a nym.

-Declan