Turkish Press: Frontex kills migrant at Evros
A migrant was killed as Frontex patrol opened fire to migrants crossing the greek-turkish border at Evros river, according to Turkish Press. The newspaper says that the day before yesterday (prob. 24/8) a group of migrants were attempting to cross illegally from Evros in Greece in Ouzounkioprou of Edirne, as Frontex forces opened fire on […]
Crowdsourcing Could Predict Terror Strikes, Gas Prices
By JULIE VALLONE Researchers are seeking ways to better predict such actions. One team active in this arena is Raleigh, N.C.-based Applied Research Associates and its partner researchers from seven universities. They’re finding new ways to use „crowdsourcing“ to make more accurate predictions of events and trends. The ARA team is developing and testing a […]
Communique
Today, the nobordercats crossdressed the monument of the borderguard and his german shepdog in Svilengrad. “This is an action aignst Frontex”, explaned nobordercat Matze. Frontex is the EU border agency, which was established to tackle the so called “illegal migration”. The Frontex officers already arrived in Bulgaria. They train the bulgarian border police to build […]
Using false documents against “Euro-anarchists”: the exchange of Anglo-German undercover police highlights controversial police operations
Matthias Monroy Examination of several recently exposed cases suggests that the main targets of police public order operations are anti‐globalisation networks, the climate change movement and animal rights activists. Statewatch Journal Volume 21 no 2 The internationalisation of protest has brought with it an increasing number of controversial undercover cross‐border police operations. In spite of […]
IBM supercomputers help law enforcement gather, analyze, and manage crime data
The Intelligent Operations Center combines technologies acquired by IBM in recent acquisitions with the company’s own analytics technologies created in collaboration with cities around the world In mid-February of this year, IBM’s Watson supercomputer — named after company founder Thomas Watson — all but dismantled Jeopardy “super champions” champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Throughout […]
Libyan Rebels Are Flying Their Own Minidrone
By Spencer Ackerman The Libyan revolutionaries are more of a band of enthusiastic amateurs than experienced soldiers. But it turns out the rebels have the kind of weaponry usually possessed by advanced militaries: their very own drone. Aeryon Labs, a Canadian defense firm, revealed on Tuesday that it had quietly provided the rebel forces with […]
Twitter & Facebook say that restrictions weren’t discussed at UK government riot talks
Twitter and Facebook have officially responded after today’s meeting with the UK Home Secretary, Culture Secretary, Foreign Office Minister and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), over the role social media played in the recent riots that swept across the country. A Twitter spokesperson told The Next Web: “Governments and law enforcement agencies around […]
Facebook and Twitter to oppose calls for social media blocks during riots
Ministers expected to row back from David Cameron’s demand that suspected rioters be barred from websites Josh Halliday Facebook and Twitter are preparing to stand firm against government ministers‘ calls to ban people from social networks or shut their websites down in times of civil unrest. The major social networks are expected to offer no […]
‚Smart‘ CCTV could track rioters
CCTV that can automatically monitor criminal behaviour and track suspects is being developed by UK scientists. Researchers at Kingston University have created a system that uses artificial intelligence to recognise specific types of behaviour, such as someone holding a gun. The technology is capable of following a person across multiple cameras. Privacy campaigners warned that […]
Torture in Bahrain Aided by Nokia Siemens
By Vernon Silver and Ben Elgin First, Bahraini jailers armed with stiff rubber hoses beat the 39-year-old school administrator and human rights activist in a windowless room two stories below ground in the Persian Gulf kingdom’s National Security Apparatus building. Then, they dragged him upstairs for questioning by a uniformed officer armed with another kind […]
Tased From Above! New Robot Copter To Begin Patrolling Our Skies
by Peter Murray Forget the idea that weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are only for military operations in wars fought in far off lands. Soon they’ll begin setting their sights on criminals within our borders. And they’ll be packing heat, not the long-range missiles of the X-47B, but with up close and personal stun guns, […]
Social networks to meet home secretary over riots
The major social networks have been called to the home office next Thursday to discuss the English riots. So far only Facebook has confirmed its attendance, although Blackberry has suggested it will also be there. Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry have all been criticised after it emerged that some rioters may have used them to plan […]
Facebook ban for teenager who encouraged rioters
Youth barred from social networking sites for 12 months after posting ‚come on rioters‘ rallying call A 17-year-old who posted a Facebook message saying „come on rioters“ has been banned from social networking sites for 12 months. Appearing at Bury St Edmunds youth court, the teenager, from a nearby village, admitted sending menacing messages on […]
UK pair jailed for using social media to incite riots
Two men have been jailed for four years each in northwest England for inciting disorder via social networking sites as rioting and looting erupted in London and other cities last week, police said Tuesday. The pair, who were arrested last week, were named by Cheshire Police as Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22. Neither […]
MI5 joins social messaging trawl for riot organisers
Intelligence agency asked to crack encrypted messages – especially on BlackBerry Messenger – to help police Vikram Dodd, Richard Norton-Taylor and Josh Halliday The security service MI5 and the electronic interception centre GCHQ have been asked by the government to join the hunt for people who organised last week’s riots, the Guardian has learned. The […]
From Choucha to Tunis – between Migration and Revolution
In May 2011 a delegation of the anti-racist networks Afrique-Europe-Interact and Welcome to Europe went to Tunisia. Apart from Tunis stops of the contact- and fact-finding tour were among others refugee camps at the Libyan border as well as Sidi Bouzid – the place were the uprising started in December 2010. Below are some impressions […]
Facial recognition to be used for London Olympics
London: Facial recognition technology being considered for London’s 2012 Games is getting a workout in the wake of Britain’s riots, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday, with officers feeding photographs of suspects through Scotland Yard’s newly updated face-matching program. The official said that the Metropolitan Police’s sophisticated software was being used […]
England riots: Government mulls social media controls
Curbs on social media and texting are being considered by the government The government is exploring whether to turn off social networks or stop people texting during times of social unrest. David Cameron said the intelligence services and the police were exploring whether it was „right and possible“ to cut off those plotting violence. Texting […]
Google Admits Handing over European User Data to US Intelligence Agencies
Google has admitted complying with requests from US intelligence agencies for data stored in its European data centers, most likely in violation of European Union data protection laws. Gordon Frazer, Microsoft UK’s managing director, made news headlines some weeks ago when he admitted that Microsoft can be compelled to share data with the US government […]
Security Research Conference 2011
We would like to invite you to the Security Research Conference 2011– the largest European conference on research for security, which will be held on: 19-21 September 2011 in Hilton Hotel in Warsaw, Poland This year in the capital of Poland all the security stakeholders will meet for the sixth time. Policy makers, researchers, industry […]