Rogers Protection Center

INDECT aka "Orwell's Nightmare"

In recent days there have been some messages about IND ECT. The acronym stands for (deep breath!) "In telligent information system supporting observation, searching and de te ct ion for security of citizens in urban environment ".
Of course we speak in the title and the project only increased security but who reads a few lines later comes quickly to the limits of all that we as Rule of Law and Constitutional know. Here's a monster in the process is to arise, which not only has the possibility but even the task to scan entire populations and to monitor. act

Nominally it is an "intelligent information system to support to monitoring, search and detect safety of citizens in an urban environment. "According to the EU Commission Project at least 11 million euro cost. The main objective of the project seems fully automated pooling of monitoring mechanisms of all stripes from across the European Union to be. These include not only the monitoring of public space by CCTV cameras in pedestrian zones, but also the application of "a large number of microphones, developing its own search engine for permanent and automated monitoring of web sites, videos, forums, Usenet groups, web servers , blogs, email, P2P networks, social networks (Facebook, Flickr, etc.) and of course personal computers, greet Federal Trojans can, to the use of whole squadrons (I shit you not!) Unmanned surveillance drones.

on the official website of some of the project status reports are available publicly for download. After some voices in the blogosphere "made use of these files, some of them disappeared, especially the document D 1.1, a general summary of the project. It seems to clear and concise. The documents appeared elsewhere but then again, among other things, they were leaked to the Pirate Party (see references). A further response to the public outcry on the part of the project was - instead of openness, transparency and education - the establishment of a cynically titled "Ethics Board" what more a public relations office for INDECT is, who decides in the future, what information is disclosed to the public, and what not, so that employees can better concentrate on their work on the project.

In the meantime disappeared documents (9.4) has drawn even on the truly unfortunate fact that the methods of criminals whom the police are usually one step ahead, as financial police with lower and handicapped by bureaucracy agents must accept as the villains and, unlike their counterparts in law and must respect human rights.
The implication that in diesem Satz mitschwingt, lässt einem einen kalten Schauer den Rücken herunter laufen. Wird hier ein Fuß in die Tür Gesetzt, in Zukunft - natürlich nur bei besonders bösen Terroristen - die Menschenrechte außen vor zu lassen?

Anwendungsgebiete für das inzwischen für den Big-Brother-Award nominierte Projekt sind vielseitig. Denkbar sind Suchanfragen wie "Zeig mir eine Liste aller ..." mit einer beliebigen Verdachtsgruppe als Ziel (Muslime, Gewerkschafter, Personen mit Konten im Ausland, Personen, die Häufig nach Holland fahren (Verdacht auf Drogen) oder Menschen mit ungesundem Lebenswandel, Besucher der Seite XY oder oder oder.) Die Missbrauchsmöglichkeiten für so ein "Wunderwerk der Technology "are endless. The European Data Protection Supervisor has not, of course connected to this project, he was not even informed about it (see this interview ).

is in cities, even with use of the" intelligent "evaluation of camera and microphone data suspicious behavior be tracked and analyzed. It is also used by "profiling". That is, a few dozen police officers were questioned as classically because of me looks like a shoplifter, and the people that apply to this description may be monitored more closely. The resulting potential offenders would then identified, filtered, scanned, reviewed and are arrested in doubt. Under "suspicious behavior" includes, for example, these activities:

- race, run, in the wrong direction move
- Driving too fast, wrong
- groups of more than X people
- Luggage forget
- For too long at the station or airport sit
- lounging around, shouting, swearing

With this project, of course, created entirely new categories in terms of "holistic" surveillance of people. He knew of this research project, would George Orwell - author of "1984" - turn in his grave. The rule of law concepts such as "presumption of innocence" or "court-proof evidence" of this project are completely pushed aside. In its place comes the mother of all data leeches comb through with their sacred mission in the name of law and order to Europe after all troublemakers. In the sense of freedom and democracy as a project is unthinkable. Indect must be stopped.

Finally, a quote:

abandon the willing, their liberties for more security deserve neither liberty nor safety.
(Benjamin Franklin)

tl, dr:
The EU research with millions on a software monitoring program called INDECT, dass mit vollautomatischer Analyse vom Daten aus dem Internet und der Überwachunginfrastruktur die Sicherheit erhöhen soll. Dinge wie Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Unschuldsvermutung lösen sich schnell in Rauch auf.

Quellen:
Infoseite bei der Piratenpartei über INDECT
AG Indect bei der Piratenpartei
Dokumente zu INDECT, die der Piratenpartei zugespielt wurden
Offizielle Website des INDECT-Projektes
Offizielle Projektbeschreibung der EU-Kommission