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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7914
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/spying

European Commission denies Americans are testing EU encryption systems - excuses of a civil servant at temporary echelon committee

Brussels, 01/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - Jonathan Faull, spokesperson for the European Commission, denied on Thursday the information reported by the French daily Liberation according to which the American National Security Agency (NSA) had access to secret Commission data through a European civil servant who had asked the Americans to test the encryption systems installed. According to Liberation, the civil servant, Desmond Perkins, recognised the fact before the European Parliament temporary...

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