EU INDECT – EU, spying on you
p2pnet news view Politics | Freedom | P2P:- To the tune of £10 million (about $C16,973,183), the European Union is backing Project Indect, a five-year spy plan whose principal function would be to secretly monitor almost every aspect of the lives of EU citizens.
Says Wikileaks, “This file, marked ‘confidential’, describes development of an EU-funded intelligence gathering system (’INDECT work package 4′) designed to comb webblogs, chat sites, newsreports, and social-networking sites to inorder to build up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships.”
It goes on »»»
The aim of work package 4 (WP4) is the development of key technologies that facilitate the building of an intelligence gathering system by combining and extending the current-state-ofthe- art methods in Natural Language Processing (NLP). One of the goals of WP4 is to propose NLP and machine learning methods that learn relationships between people and organizations through websites and social networks.
Key requirements for the development of such methods are:
(1) the identification of entities, their relationships and the events in which they participate,and
(2) the labelling of the entities, relationships and events in a corpus that will be used as a means both for developing the methods.”
The file was (accidently?) released at http://indect-project.eu/files/deliverables/public/INDECT_Deliverable_4.1_v20090630a.pdf/at_download/file
Project contact, DZIECH, Andrzej (Professor) Tel: +48-12-6172616 Fax: +48-12-6342372
For the public background to INDECT, see http://indect-project.eu/
Says the project home page blandly »»»
Grant agreement no.: 218086
Instrument: COLLABORATIVE PROJECT
Research area: SEC-2007-1.2-01 Intelligent urban environment observation system
Duration: 60 months
For more official EU information about INDECT click here.
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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.
INDECT Partners
1. AGH Univeristy of Science and Technology (Poland) – Project Coordinator http://www.agh.edu.pl/en
2. Gdansk University of Technology (Poland) http://www.pg.gda.pl
3. InnoTec DATA G.m.b.H. & Co. KG (Germany) http://www.innotec-data.de
4. Grenoble INP (France) http://www.grenoble-inp.fr
5. MSWIA – General Headquarters of Police (Poland) http://www.policja.pl/
6. Moviquity (Spain) http://www.moviquity.com/webingles/index.htm
7. PSI Transcom GmbH (Germany) http://www.psi.de/
8. Police Service of Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) http://www.psni.police.uk/
9. Poznan University of Technology (Poland) http://www.put.poznan.pl
10. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) http://www.uc3m.es
11. Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria) http://www.tu-sofia.bg
12. University of Wuppertal (Germany) http://www.uni-wuppertal.de
13. University of York (Great Britain) http://www.york.ac.uk
14. Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) http://www.vsb.cz
15. Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia) http://www.tuke.sk/tuke?set_language=en&cl=en
16. X-Art Pro Division G.m.b.H. (Austria) http://www.x-art.at
17. Fachhochschule Technikum Wien (Austria) http://www.technikum-wien.at
And you can be sure North America enforcement agencies will be following INDECT’s progress very closely.
We’ll try to run the entire leaked document a little later.
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October, 2009
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