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Siemens Develops Multi-Purpose Surveillance System
ekesis tips a story up at NewScientist about the development of a new surveillance system by German engineering conglomerate Siemens. The system is notable for its integration of many different types of automated data-gathering. It can scan "telephone calls, email and internet activity, bank transactions and insurance records." It uses advanced pattern-recognition software to pick out unusual activities and important pieces of data. So far, the system has been sold to 60 countries.
"According to a document obtained by New Scientist, the system integrates tasks typically done by separate surveillance teams or machines... This software is trained on a large number of sample documents to pick out items such as names, phone numbers and places from generic text. This means it can spot names or numbers that crop up alongside anyone already of interest to the authorities, and then catalogue any documents that contain such associates."
at least we know the constitution will prevent the installation of this machine in the US. *shrugs*
Must not make Godwin argument -Siemens, Germany and NA NOOOO! I will not! Owwwwww I wiilll nottt owwwwww
... that UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown-shirt just came in his pants on hearing this development.
It's like fascism-in-a-can.
Now if they can only develop a way of this system generating a data cd, and automatically losing that on a train seat, it will meet all UK requirements.
Julia Child Surveil-a-matic. Many tools in one convenient package. Comes with self-defense kitchen knives, navigational scarves, dog doo radio transmitters...First three thousand customers will also receive a month's supply of shark repellent. No more worries about those nasty lasers.
What?
how many geeks does it take to muster a first-world class military?
That's a divide by zero problem, so it's a trick question.
Dude, I hate to burst your bubble, but the satellites are like way above the clouds.