Now, Google, Skype, VPN asked to give access to law enforcing agenices
NEW DELHI: After mobile phone maker BlackBerry, the government will issue notices to search engine Google, internet phone call provider Skype, service provider Virtual Private Network (VPN) and a few other entities to make available their services to law enforcement agencies. The notices to these entities will be issued beginning tomorrow and all of them […]
HARMLESS
Humanitarian aid, emergency management and law enforcement support applications HARMLESS aimed to promote the use of the applications of the European navigation satellite systems in the areas of emergency management, humanitarian aid and law enforcement, paying special attention to the cases where EGNOS and Galileo (as compared to GPS) are the enablers for those applications. […]
Facial recognition software hunts for G20 riot ringleaders
Toronto police are using hi-tech facial recognition software to comb through tens of thousands of images in the hunt for the ringleaders of the G20 riots, the lead investigator says. The DVD images come from closed-circuit cameras installed throughout the downtown area, 12 metres above street-level, Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux says. Some of the 28,000 images […]
Ghent, Belgium, September 23: Manifestation to oppose war preparation
Protest against the informal EU Defence Summit 2010 (sept 23-24), Ghent, Belgium Stop the European militarisation During the Belgian presidency of the European Union (2nd half of 2010) the Ministers of Defence of the member states will gather for an informal summit, on September 23 and 24 in the town of Ghent. This summit will […]
FUCK AUSTERITY! SMASH ECOFIN! FIGHT FOR AN ECO SOCIAL EUROPE!
English Français Map Since the crisis of Greece and the euro in early May, the European Union has become a political zombie: its neoliberal and monetarist brain is damaged, but it continues to create havoc and disaster. Merkel, whose inaction has escalated the cost of the financial crisis from €45 to €450 million, is imposing […]
Call For Participation: Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life
Digitally mediated surveillance (DMS) is an increasingly prevalent, but still largely invisible, aspect of daily life. As we work, play and negotiate public and private spaces, on-line and off, we produce a growing stream of personal digital data of interest to unseen others. CCTV cameras hosted by private and public actors survey and record our […]
To Data Mine or Not to Data Mine in the Fight Against Terrorism
by Dr. Ramon Barquin Every nation in the world is well within its rights to use whatever legitimate tools they have at hand, including data mining, to protect its citizens from terrorism. That was at least the premise with which I approached and accepted the invitation to participate in a 2-day conference titled: Data Mining […]
Software Predicts Criminal Behavior
By ERIC BLAND New crime prediction software being rolled out in the nation’s capital should reduce not only the murder rate, but the rate of many other crimes as well. Developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the software is already used in Baltimore and Philadelphia to predict which individuals on […]
Prospect of French ‚anti-Roma‘ summit disturbs EU presidency
Prospect of French ‚anti-Roma‘ summit disturbs EU presidency Belgium, which currently holds the EU’s six-month rotating presidency, may reject France’s invitation to a ministerial meeting for fear that Paris wants to use the event to legitimise its policy of rounding up and expelling Roma.“If it begins to be apparent that the meeting is only a […]
Italy to raise EU citizen expulsion policy at September meeting
HONOR MAHONY Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves, in a move apparently inspired by France’s current crackdown on Roma. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday (21 August) that French president Nicolas Sarkozy – whose recent […]
Crisis response to the Haiti earthquake – an EU SITCEN perspective
The Brussels-based EU Situation Centre (EU SITCEN) monitors and assesses international events 24 hours a day, seven days a week. With the Lisbon Treaty having just come into force and no European External Action Service in place, the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake was a big challenge. Among the various EU players involved, how was SITCEN […]
Fortress Europe Starts With Greece
Apostolis Fotiadis When Michalis Chrisohoidis, Greek minister of citizens‘ protection announced that FRONTEX, the European Agency for Border Control and Protection, would double its representation in this country in spring, it was clear that Greece is being charged with special responsibilities to apprehend and repatriate illegal migrants into Europe. Speaking at a United Nations conference […]
Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother
Austin Carr We’ve all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian future, where the public is tracked everywhere they go, from shopping malls to work to mass transit to the privacy of their own homes. The technology is here. I’ve seen it myself. It’s seen me, too, and […]
Commonwealth Games 2010: New Delhi to take drastic safety precautions for ‚Friendly Games‘
They have become known as the ‚Friendly Games‘ but New Delhi will present a very different picture when the most heavily guarded Commonwealth Games in history open for business on Oct 3. By Simon Hart Around 80,000 Delhi police officers, 17,500 paramilitary personnel including snipers and bomb disposal experts, 3,000 specialised commandos and 100 anti-sabotage […]
Implementation of the Europol led action points of the IMS related action list
Brussels, 15 June 2010 11125/10 LIMITE From: Europol To: Ad hoc Working Group on Information Exchange Subject: Information Management Strategy (IMS) – Implementation of the Europol led action points of the IMS related action list During the second half of 2009 the Information Management Strategy (IMS) was adopted under the Swedish Presidency of the European […]
Intelligence-led policing is future focus in Rochester
By Jeffrey Pieters The future of law enforcement — using sophisticated data tools to predict and prevent crimes rather than just react to them — is now, says Rochester Police Chief Roger Peterson. „This is not hypothetical,“ Peterson said Monday in a presentation to the city council. „These systems exist in other jurisdictions, and they […]
Business Concept for an Information Exchange Platform for Law Enforcement Agencies
Brussels, 15 June 2010 11117/10 LIMITE from: Europol to: Ad hoc Group on Information Exchange Subject: Business Concept for an Information Exchange Platform for Law Enforcement Agencies In January 2010 the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union presented a proposal to establish at EU level an information exchange platform for law enforcement […]
Ministerial Meeting on Justice, Freedom, Security between Ukraine and the EU
Brussels, 15 June 2010 10933/10 LIMITE from: General Secretariat of the Council to: Delegations Subject: Results of the Ministerial Meeting on Justice, Freedom, Security between Ukraine and the EU, Brussels, 9 June 2010 The agenda was adopted as reflected below. In their opening statements, the Spanish Presidency and the Commission insisted on the importance of […]
G20 SEOUL: THERE WILL BE A STORM
Barb Dwyer „The wind from above assumes its old forms of arrogance and haughtiness. The police and the Federal Army close ranks around money and corruption. The wind from below once again travels the ravines and valleys; it is beginning to blow strongly. There will be a storm…“ -Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN [chicago.indymedia.org] On […]