[ExI] EU institutes massive program to monitor "abnormal" behavior

[Florent Berthet]

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2009/9/24 Robert Masters <rob4332000 at yahoo.com>

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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6210255/EU-funding-Orwellian-artificial-intelligence-plan-to-monitor-public-for-abnormal-behaviour.html
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> From the UK Telegraph:
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> A five-year research programme, called Project Indect, aims to develop
> computer programmes which act as "agents" to monitor and process information
> from web sites, discussion forums, file servers, peer-to-peer networks and
> even individual computers.
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> Its main objectives include the "automatic detection of threats and abnormal
> behaviour or violence".
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> Stephen Booth, an Open Europe analyst who has helped compile a dossier on
> the European justice agenda, said these developments and projects such as
> Indect sounded "Orwellian" and raised serious questions about individual
> liberty.
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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.
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> Rob Masters
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