More than four years ago, when Eleanor first proposed a central satellite-based surveillance system for counter-terrorism to the NATO Special Committee on Terrorism, they considered it an overly ambitious project. Furthermore, Eleanor claimed the project would be completed within five years… an assertion most dismissed as unrealistic.
Fortunately, Fiona Elizabeth Raynor had allies within NATO who pulled the necessary strings, and the proposal was eventually forwarded to the Military Committee for appraisal. As the senior military authority of NATO, composed of member nations' Chiefs of Defence, they found the proposal intriguing. However, their primary concern lay in the matter of sovereignty… a core NATO principle. Questions were raised about how data control and national privacy would be preserved in such a shared surveillance programme.
