Demo of EU’s Planned „INDECT“ Hints At Massive Data Mining, Little Privacy

[yro.slashdot.org] 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.’"

 

Download Video: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/File:INDECT-400px.ogv

Source: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/19/1938223/Demo-of-EUs-Proposed-INDECT-System-Hints-At-Pervasive-Data-Mining-Little-Pri