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Thank you for sparing my the trouble of writing that.

I'll just add that the incredibly secret leaked documents are available at the project website.

US: GPS scanners on cars
India: Blackberry keys/40-bit encryption
UAE: Etelisat certificate/man-in-the-middle
Germany: INDECT
UK: CCTV/Echelon

You are comparing apples and oranges. INDECT is not a surveillance operation, it is a study on surveillance algorithms/techniques. Sure it is a bit shady, and they probably have access to some collected data sets, but in the core it is a research project, studying methods of assisting the focus of humans that watch camera walls. For instance, "suspicious behaviour detection" ... of course it will never work perfectly.

The great thing about surveillance is that it doesn't work, for once because personnel to dig through all the data is required. INDECT tries to cover this aspect.

It's not exactly some shady organisation doing secret stuff in their bunker. The document lists ~20 universities that collaborate on that. They are the ones to be asked what they are actually researching on, and whether it is ethical. That happened, and unfortunately INDECT decided to remove the documents from their website ( http://www.indect-project.eu/ ), citing that the researchers don't get to researching because they have to answer questions all day long ...

This story is so old by now ...

However, contrary to US/UK, central Europe, and especially Germany has resistance against surveillance and has a culture of privacy (in the sense of "right to be left alone").

People everywhere are under attack by the armed gangs otherwise known as government. Then we have the gang union (UN)'s telecoms guy saying companies need to work with governments.

People have the government they deserve -- Joseph de Maistre. Especially in democracies.

People need to stop fighting each other and unite against their own governments.

Politicians are not a separate species. They are people like you and me.

INDECT seem to be an EU FP7 funded project. All the deliverables [including the quoted "secret" documents] can be reached at: http://www.indect-project.eu/public-deliverables

This is silly. The EU isn't "planning" anything. INDECT is an FP7 research project. So it's a bunch of universities and industrial partners that happened to get funding from the EU because the reviewers thought it was a scientifically interesting proposal. That doesn't mean anything the researchers come up with is EU policy. Besides, the EU doesn't have any authority or power whatsoever to impose a police state on its members.

(They have a FAQ, by the way.)

Those documents aren't secret. They were released to the public by the INDECT project itself, ages ago. Right here!

Look again. The "D1.1 Report on the collection and analysis of user requirements" is not public available though the link you posted.

The project has a 10-member "ethics board".

• 2 members are cops.
• 1 member is a retired cop.
• 1 member is a "human rights lawyer" who works for a police department.
• 1 member is a criminologist
• 4 members are involved in developing the technology.
• 1 member is a professor of ethics at Oxford.

Those documents aren't secret. They were released to the public by the INDECT project itself, ages ago. Right here!

They know your looking at IM, forums, google ect. http://wikileaks.org/ google cache has a link to
http://indect-project.eu/files/deliverables/public/INDECT_Deliverable_4.1_v20090630a.pdf/at_download/file
Anybody of interest knows to keep a very low profile.
Never buy too much of anything thats a direct step to a listed watched chemical.
Never talk to strangers online about political ideas.
Stay out of web 2.0. If mainstream US cable news and the US mil is talking up twitter, never use twitter.
Learn how to protest, learn how 1 person can change the system and then just melt back to be replaced by another random stranger.
If 10 or 100 or 10000 random strangers turn up the US mil is going to have a really bad day.
Do they allow a protest to grow, beat it down or try to re shape it.
They seem to be hoping Narus will allow them to pick out leaders and arrest/smear/turn them.
Someone needs to tell the US gov, the world has moved beyond leaders and cointelpro has been reverse engineered - people expect and enjoy infiltration, film it and lol at it.
The US is on the edge of 1980's Europe. They think the tech will save them.
Millions of online searches, chat and ip's will allow them to filter out the bright connected ones and somehow stop unrest.
The only winners are the people selling the Narus like tech and the people who know to never surface.

Project Description

Intelligent information system supporting observation, searching and detection for security of citizens in urban environment.

The main objectives of the INDECT project are:

• to develop a platform for: the registration and exchange of operational data, acquisition of multimedia content, intelligent processing of all information and automatic detection of threats and recognition of abnormal behaviour or violence,
• to develop the prototype of an integrated, network-centric system supporting the operational activities of police officers, providing techniques and tools for observation of various mobile objects,
• to develop a new type of search engine combining direct search of images and video based on watermarked contents, and the storage of metadata in the form of digital watermarks,

The main expected results of the INDECT project are:

• to realise a trial installation of the monitoring and surveillance system in various points of city agglomeration and demonstration of the prototype of the system with 15 node stations,
• implementation of a distributed computer system that is capable of acquisition, storage and effective sharing on demand of the data as well as intelligent processing, construction of a family of prototypes of devices used for mobile object tracking,
• construction of a search engine for fast detection of persons and documents based on watermarking technology and utilising comprehensive research on watermarking technology used for semantic search,
• construction of agents assigned to continuous and automatic monitoring of public resources such as: web sites, discussion forums, UseNet groups, file servers, p2p networks as well as individual computer systems,
• elaboration of Internet based intelligence gathering system, both active and passive, and demonstrating its efficiency in a measurable way.

Sinister indeed.