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New Spy Software Coming On-Line: “Surveillance in a Box” Makes its Debut

 

Tom Burghardt

Global Research

August 29, 2008

 

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According to New Scientist, German electronics giant Siemens has developed software allegedly capable of integrating tasks typically done by separate surveillance teams or machines, pooling data from sources such as telephone calls, email and internet activity, bank transactions and insurance records. It then sorts through this mountain of information using software that Siemens dubs "intelligence modules". (Laura Margottini, "Surveillance Made Easy," New Scientist, 23 August 2008)

 

New Scientist reports that the firm has sold the system to some 60 countries in Europe and Asia. Which countries? Well, Siemens won’t say.

 

However, privacy and human rights advocates say the system bears a remarkable resemblance to China’s "Golden Shield," a massive surveillance network that integrates huge information databases, internet and email monitoring, speech and facial recognition platforms in combination with CCTV monitoring.

 

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In the UK, the Home Office announced it plans to provide law enforcement, local councils and other public agencies access to the details of text messages, emails and internet browsing. This follows close on the heels of an announcement last May that New Labour was considering building a massive centralized database "as a tool to help the security services tackle crime and terrorism." According to The Guardian,

 

Local councils, health authorities and hundreds of other public bodies are to be given the power to access details of everyone’s personal text, emails and internet use under Home Office proposals published yesterday. Ministers want to make it mandatory for telephone and internet companies to keep details of all personal internet traffic for at least 12 months so it can be accessed for investigations into crime or other threats to public safety.

 

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In other words, if you’ve got nothing to hide "trust us:" the shopworn mantra of securocrats everywhere. And in today’s climate, this is an especially burdensome challenge for state security and corporate spies who demand "highly-sophisticated, multi-level voice and data recordings" in order to destroy our rights while transforming our respective societies into Orwellian police states. New Scientist reports.

 

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Oh, no! It's in bold, and italics & underlines in some parts, so now you won't read it? you people whine too much.

 

Anyways, yeah, this was bound to happen eventually. People do illegal stuff, and make it a hassle for everyone else to live their own lives...

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Oh, no! It's in bold, and italics & underlines in some parts, so now you won't read it? you people whine too much.

 

Anyways, yeah, this was bound to happen eventually. People do illegal stuff, and make it a hassle for everyone else to live their own lives...

 

...but I like smoking weed. :(

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