 JohnInSJPremium
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Re: EU Funding 'Orwellian' Artificial Intelligence Plan (INDECT) One really minor niggle
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"This is all pretty scary stuff in my book. These projects would involve a huge invasion of privacy and citizens need to ask themselves whether the EU should be spending their taxes on them," he said.
They're monitoring PUBLIC behavior.
The internet is not private. Say it with me kids.
This all goes to the 'wild west' thread. This here is the EU Marshal.
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The point, I think, is that high-speed automatic processing combined with huge reach and data access results in qualitatively different capabilities, rather than just making things "more efficient".
Things which were previously 'public' did not necessarily end up accessible to anyone other than a file clerk front-ended by a week-long access request. When that takes a millisecond, it becomes possible to do a lot more data-mining and hence profiling.
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said by JohnInSJ:They're monitoring PUBLIC behavior. You will be included 24/7, particularly since you have nothing to hide.
said by JohnInSJ:The internet is not private. Say it with me kids. Say it with me kids - Glib: def. - Characterized by fluency of speech or writing that often suggests insincerity, superficiality, thoughtlessness, or a lack of concern.
The following privacy issues also included above:
• European police forces are likely to gain access to sensitive information held by UK police, including the British DNA database
• intelligent processing of all information and automatic detection of threats and recognition of abnormal behaviour or violence
• It is seeking to develop models of "suspicious behaviour" so these can be automatically detected using CCTV and other surveillance methods. The system would analyse the pitch of people's voices, the way their bodies move and track individuals within crowds. [Automatic Detection of Abnormal Behaviour and Threats in crowded Spaces]
• "The expansion of what is effectively the beginning of an EU 'secret service' raises fundamental questions of political oversight in the member states."
• 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
• piloting 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
• "Profiling whole populations instead of monitoring individual suspects is a sinister step in any society. It's dangerous enough at national level, but on a Europe-wide scale the idea becomes positively chilling." |
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