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Demo of EU's Planned "INDECT" Hints At Massive Data Mining, Little Privacy

Posted by timothy on from the greater-good-strikes-back dept.

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.'"

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  1. Stwike him, Centuwion, vewy woughly by spun · · Score: 2, Funny

    [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.

     

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  2. A new standard for proof... by Obfuscant · · Score: 3, Funny
    An unreleased promotional video for INDECT located on YouTube...

    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."

  3. If you think that's bad??? by Erythros · · Score: 1, Funny

    Slashdotters should fear the upcoming SPERM program.

    Surveillance
    Program
    Encompassing
    Repetitive
    Masturbation

    I dread the day Big Brother puts SPERM on everyone.

  4. Redundant... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "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?

  5. I think INDICT is the word they are looking for by cats-paw · · Score: 2, Funny

    I feel so warm and fuzzy that all of these governments are so concerned about my safety..

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  6. Re:Enhance by QuantumRiff · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just look at the success of the video surveillance system in London for cutting down on crimes.

    Oh, wait.. I meant solving crimes,

    Err, I meant.. Look how many jobs it created..

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  7. Re:For totalitarian government everywhere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why is it that every single time a government, any government, does something ridiculous like this, people always blame the US and say they'll be getting it next Tuesday? I mean, sure, bash the US, but it's not the US that's got 1 camera for every 14 citizens, and it's not the US that's implementing this wacky scheme.