This sounds like really interesting and useful work. I imagine that there are other nonprofits around europe working on this--possibility of linking up with them?
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > We at the University of York are trying to gather information and insights > on the Indect project - http://www.indect-project.eu/ - funded by the > Europen Union with the aim to build identities of people which are thought > to be planning or have partecipated in crimes. This is done by linking to > entities - people, organizations etc. - all references to this entity from > social networks, blogs, surveillance cameras and the like and understanding > in which events these entities participate. Other than the issue of privacy, > for which a Ethics board committee (we contacted a member of it but no reply > yet) was set up, we believe that this project would work toward changing the > anatomy of the internet in a restrictive way, stressing again the point > highlighted by Lessig in the book Free Culture, that the code becomes the > law. > > Over the last week we got in contact with the Project manager here at York, > who oversees the most controversial deliverable: > (http://www.indect-project.eu/files/deliverables/public/INDECT_Deliverable_4.1_v20090630a.pdf/view) > which defines the XML data corpus collecting the information and he has > agreed on a face-to-face interview, possibly sometimes next week. Also we > contacted the Indect Project Administrator who has agreed to answer some > written questions. > > We are currently studying the deliverables(other 2 interesting ones are: 4.3 > - Behavioural profiling and 4.2 - on relationship mining) and are trying to > formulate intelligent questions on specific issues rather than a general > critic on the project. > > It would be very beneficial if anyone interested shared his/her thoughts on > the matter perhaps to understand better the threat - if there is a threat - > that this project will bring to the internet as we know it. > > Ciao ciao, > Andrea. > > > On Nov 10 2010, [email protected] wrote: > >> Send Discuss mailing list submissions to >> [email protected] >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> [email protected] >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> [email protected] >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Discuss digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. 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