The site is alleged to be part of the ECHELON system, monitoring civilian communications satellites.

In association with the ECHELON system, all five nations are assigned to intelligence collection and analysis from different parts of the world.

Okay, they got it, too, and they got a voice transmission via their ECHELON system, reading it now.

Along with these services from the United States, the UK, New Zealand and Australia, CSEC is believed to form the ECHELON system.

Both were on chat-n-chuck, throwaway phones purchased strictly for this conversation, but if the NSA had his voiceprint and the ECHELON system registered a match, it wouldn't do them much good.

It is concerned with the interception, decrypting and processing of communication for the Communications Security Establishment Canada and the Canadian Forces, and forms part of the ECHELON system.

In particular, Hager documented the US-coordinated ECHELON system, through which the five agencies intercept and process huge volumes of international e-mail, fax and telephone communications.

The UKUSA alliance is often associated with the ECHELON system; however, processed intelligence is reliant on multiple sources of information and the intelligence shared is not restricted to signals intelligence.

The U.S. in particular is known to maintain satellites able to intercept cell-phone and pager traffic, usually referred to as the ECHELON system.

Is there such a thing as an ECHELON system?