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Demo of EU's Planned "INDECT" Hints At Massive Data Mining, Little Privacy
Ronald Dumsfeld writes "Wikinews puts together some of the details around the EU's five-year-plan called Project INDECT, and brings attention to a leaked 'sales-pitch' video: 'An unreleased promotional video for INDECT located on YouTube is shown to the right. The simplified example of the system in operation shows a file of documents with a visible INDECT-titled cover stolen from an office and exchanged in a car park. How the police are alerted to the document theft is unclear in the video; as a "threat," it would be the INDECT system's job to predict it. Throughout the video use of CCTV equipment, facial recognition, number plate reading, and aerial surveillance give friend-or-foe information with an overlaid map to authorities. The police proactively use this information to coordinate locating, pursing, and capturing the document recipient. The file of documents is retrieved, and the recipient roughly detained.'"
The police proactively use this information to coordinate locating, pursing, and capturing the document recipient. The file of documents is retrieved, and the recipient roughly detained.
Nice to hear they plan to roughly detain the perp after they purse him.
Their plan of ubiquitous surveillance of all source code would force uniform standards of indentation on all programmers.
You can keep your Eurotrash socialism, thank you.
Whenever I see facial recognition enhancement, I think of this:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1156
Turns out... it's theoretically impossible!
Seriously, this video plays like a bad science ficition movie... they say "let us monitor everything and we'll magically know when crimes are committed," without saying exactly *how* they plan on sorting through the incredible amount of data and coming up with "crime X being committed right now" in a timely manner.
Guys....
The book 1984 was not meant to be a *manual*
Thanks.
[slap]
BRIAN: Aaah!
CENTURION: Oh, and, uh, throw him to the floor, sir?
PILATE: What?
CENTURION: Thwow him to the floor again, sir?
PILATE: Oh, yes. Thwow him to the floor, please.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
"A report accidentally published on the Internet provides insight into a secretive European Union surveillance project designed to monitor its citizens, as reported by Wikileaks earlier this month. Project INDECT aims to mine data from television, internet traffic, cellphone conversations, p2p file sharing and a range of other sources for crime prevention and threat prediction. The €14.68 million project began in January, 2009, and is scheduled to continue for five years under its current mandate."
Decisions, decisions. Stay in the US or move to Europe. At least they have good social benefits.
There you are, your own number on your very own door. And behind that door, your very own office! Welcome to the team, DZ-015.
L'esperienza de questa dolce vita (The experience of this sweet life) - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
In a press release dated 18 October, 2009, the World Court announced that "'a video on YouTube' has replaced 'an entry in Wikipedia' as the best source of factual evidence for any legal proceeding meeting NWO standards. Film at 11."
How do warrants and probable cause work in Europe?
I mean I realize that the video is just a sales pitch. However it bothers me that they never showed someone reporting something missing. The video gave the impression of "He looks suspicious, lets mobilize the cops to pick him up".
You mad
...should we really even bother trying to prevent this kind of future anymore?
Wouldn't we be better off solely trying to discuss ways to circumvent it when it does inevitably happen?
This future will be sold to people on the basis that it "will make them safer." And who doesn't want to be safer?
Even the anti-government quasi-anarchist "teabagger" movement in the US, for all their talk of independence, readily approves draconian security procedures, if it helps them sleep better at night.
Who's going to stop this?
I'm sure the Peoples Republic of China, North Korea, Cuba, etc, would love this program.
Slashdotters should fear the upcoming SPERM program.
Surveillance
Program
Encompassing
Repetitive
Masturbation
I dread the day Big Brother puts SPERM on everyone.
I'm not one who is usually prone to paranoid thinking but if they can do everything they claim then this is pretty scary.
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So the solution here is to alter the statistical thresholds by injecting the database with data designed to catch random people's attentions and subject them to additional scrutiny. Maybe create a worm/bot that emulates a web browser and submits queries for words like bomb, president, allah, or whatever they're searching for. Fill their database with crap, and it'll become useless.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
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As any slashdot reader would already know, the document obviously had a RFID chip in it and that alerted security when it passed through exit to the building.
"GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 51230 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Setec Astronomy)"
I worked a Coop with an employer that did government work and every time I'd leave I would have any printed documents I had on me looked over to make sure I wasn't stealing any information, yet my 4gb flash drive in my pocket, that could have held thousands of times more data than the weight of paper I can carry, was never searched. Even if they saw the flash drive on my key chain I was never questioned. And if the information in the video was so top secret it effected the security of the common person, why the hell was it sitting on top of a desk in an unlocked, empty room? Real data theft comes from employees and flash drives if anything, not printed documents and strange visitors with long hair that are allowed to roam free in a company. These security policies and BS technology videos just make CEO's and cops wet their pants, they don't really help solve any crimes or prevent theft of data. They especially don't prevent theft of data that could harm the average citizen.
When they find the guy who stole my bike.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
"The police proactively use this information to coordinate locating, pursing, and capturing the document recipient".
It seems to me that once the recipient has been pursed, capturing them is kind of redundant. Don't you already have them in a relatively small bag?
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo
Well, to bring this back on topic, how will you feel when the government sends you to a reeducation camp because you smell your own farts?
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
"This future will be sold to people on the basis that it "will make them safer." And who doesn't want to be safer?"
Safer from what? An out of control financial sector? Corporate malfeasance? Bullying at school? Why isn't anyone trying to protect me from the real dangers?
I feel so warm and fuzzy that all of these governments are so concerned about my safety..
Absolute statements are never true
Nice fellow, that Saxon. I'd vote for him. It's not like he'd use all that power for anything evil, would he?
Its a group of socialist countries. What individual rights do you think you have there ?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
For some reason their acronym reads and sounds in my head like "Indecent".
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Well, I guess in that case the baddies will have to resort to the old fashioned way of doing badness without all these high-tech toys. Just like they successfully managed to do for hundreds of years. Luckily the EU is only planning on spending 15 million euros on this - over 5 years. So it won't matter very much when they discover the money's been wasted as the criminals go back to holding face-to-face meetings, writing letters and leaving handwritten notes for each other.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
Osama isn't in Pakistan (or Afghanistan) at all - he's disappeared, or died, or retired to Florida to drink pina-coladas all day, or -
The security forces don't actually WANT to find him, as once they do there's no reason for them to continue in the region: Job done, game over, go home. And then what will they do to keep the contracts flowing to their friends in low places?
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
If this kind of technology were made available to EVERYONE, there'd probably be a lot less resistance to it. It's the fact that these politicians, corporate entities and governments think they are above other people that, at least, tick *me* off the most.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Two possibilities:
Osama isn't in Pakistan (or Afghanistan) at all - he's disappeared, or died, or retired to Florida to drink pina-coladas all day, or - The security forces don't actually WANT to find him, as once they do there's no reason for them to continue in the region: Job done, game over, go home. And then what will they do to keep the contracts flowing to their friends in low places?
Osama Bin Laden is, truly, the modern-day Emmanuel Goldstein.
Where's the Kaboom?
There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom.
Oh look, the idiots run in packs...
Absolut187: WTF is this??
We know that Osama Bin Laden is in Pakistan, yet we don't have him 8 years later.
Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think, McFly. Think!
Title says EU not US. EU not looking for Bin Laden. EU looking for ungood citizens committing thoughtcrime. EU looking for ungood citizens not love Big Brother.
petes_PoV: Two possibilities:
Osama isn't in Pakistan (or Afghanistan) at all - he's disappeared, or died, or retired to Florida to drink pina-coladas all day, or -
The security forces don't actually WANT to find him ...
Third possibility: Osama in tribal areas of Pakistan surrounded by people. People who consider Osama their guest. People who support him and keep him safe. People who are clannish and extremely untrusting of outsiders and those not of their tribe.
Outsiders going in to find Osama not easy. Not like going to downtown Anybigcity, Normalworld; looking up Osama Bin Laden in white pages, driving over to arrest him. No. Not like that. Not like that at all. Instead think Deliverance, but with little, brown murderous, raping hillbillies instead of tall, white, murderous, raping hillbillies. That's where Osama is.
The Rules of Engagement don't actually allow them to go after him.
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
The more technology, the fewer people needed to help run the place.
When the few can control the many, you can kiss goodbye to democracy. Welcome these 'advances' at your peril.
It is happening now. Big business has been eyeing China for a few years now, and business without that pesky democratic nonsense is looking increasingly attractive to many of them.
Oh yeah!
Osama!
OBL! Every one knows him around here!
Man, he's been partying it up here in Fort Myers for years. Usually you first see him around time for Spring Break, rolling into town in a caravan of Hummers and Greyhounds loaded with Turkish smoke and more jiggly girls than you can imagine, straight from Mardis Gras in New Orleens.
OBL isn't one for drinking Coladas though... he usually starts with a Margarita or two, then its on to Jack Daniels with coke, winding up with straight Jack (with extra Jack, on a really rowdy night).
He's only about 5 months older than me, but with his beard and all he looked a lot older. So I said 'OBL, you ought to clean it up a bit" Now he's lookin really sharp with his goatee. The chicks just love it, and you'll see often see them giggling as he adjusts his robes, for some reason.
Most people don't know he's an engineer, but around here he's got people all riled up about how badly designed are the I-75 and US-41 bridges across the Caloosahatchee. He's always going on and on about how those bridges are so fragile they could be taken out with a barge or medium sized aircraft.
When he's sober you'll often find him in Centennial Park playing chess. Someone told me he was going to join the chess club, but couldn't find a sponsor. That was a few years back. Not long after that the club went under.
Hmmm.
So anyway, just like Adolf, Pol Pot, the Bush family, and many other historical figures, he's found a new home here in the land of Sunshine and Perpetual Vacation, where life is just a party from December to May (or is it May / December).
Exactly like Goldstein, right down to having previously been on Big Brother's side, and that fact never being mentioned.
Always was you, always will be.