Yes but how is it a violation of your rights? It does nothing to deny you of your rights to due process at all. You seem to assume that just because a type of infrastructure is set up to deal with threats that has a possibility of abuse that it is then automatically a violation of people’s rights. That is a wrong assumption. Almost every government institution has the possibility of being used to abuse the rights of others but that ‘possibility’ does not make it an abuse automatically. If and when an abuse occurs and can be proven then you will have a point but right now you seem to just be paranoid, imo.
As I understand ECHELON, and I have only a smatering, it is not a legal violation of our rights. It does however, violate the sprit of our privacy rights.
So, technically you are correct.
I however, have good reason to be paranoid. So does everyone else.