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EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party

Posted by timothy on from the vee-simply-vish-ztu-observe-you dept.

Spliffster writes "The German Pirate Party has disclosed some secret documents on how the EU is planning to monitor citizens. The so called INDECT Documents describe how a seamless surveillance could (or should) be implemented across Europe. The use of CCTV cameras, the Internet (social networks), and even the use of UAVs are mentioned as data sources. Two of the nine documents can be downloaded from the German Pirate Party's website (PDFs in English)."

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  1. Re:For what purpose? by lanswitch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've skimmed through the first pdf. It looks like they are trying to build an Event Control system. Designed to control and identify people at large events, like soccer games. Some countries in Europe have a real problem with soccer hooligans. Or just plain riots, like the ones in France last year. It's the cops who want a system to identify the rioters. Seems logical to me, Jim.

    But the government could mis-use it for anything they want. And that scares me, as a E.U. citizen.