check this out
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3959/clinscam.htm
Dec 4, 1998 The European Union is quietly getting ready to approve legislation that will allow the police to eavesdrop both on Internet conversations and Iridium satellite telephone calls without obtaining court authorization. The legislation is part of a much wider memorandum of understanding between the EU, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway, a nonmember European nation. That agreement allows authorities to conduct telecom surveillance across international borders, according to a Europol document leaked to members of the European Parliament.
"Security measures are often necessary in the cases of terrorism or organized crime," said Glyn Ford, a member of the European Parliament for the British Labour Party and a director of the EU's Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee. "But what we need is some sort of democratic control. It seems to me that many security services are a law unto themselves."
Wired
That is overwhelming.
Seriously.
A chronolgy like no other! I scanned it and saw many names from the past.
I'm still reading this link.
WOW!