Echelon sounds like a conspiracy theory. A secret government project? Cold war private surveilling? And giant golf balls in the English countryside? This week we're digging into the full story of mass surveillance from Cold War spy networks to the devices sitting in our homes and asking how much privacy we actually have left.

CW: Government Spying and Privacy Violation, War, Brief talk of 9/11

Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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