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------ -- The Need to Know? -- Presentation - Intervention - Screening ------ -- Freitag, 22. November 2013, 19.30 Uhr -- IG Architektur, Gumpendorferstr.63b, 1060 Wien ------ -- Veranstaltung in englischer Sprache -- Eintritt frei! ------ -- Presentation: "The Drift Towards Universal Surveillance" Steve Wright (UK) on the new age of truly global surveillance and tracking with state capability sets that even the STAsi and George Orwell did not imagine. What are the long term, social and political ramifications of such capabilities and how can we successfully resist when they go beyond the limits of the law? ------ -- Intervention: "We Should Take Nothing for Granted - On the building of alert and knowledgeable citizenry" Dr. Bruno Taut (RU) will explore the depths, perils, challenges and the bliss of the decrypted century. ------ -- Screening: Marko Peljhan (SI/US) presents documents from the SPEKTR! Vaults ------ -- Steve Wright: "The Drift Towards Universal Surveillance" In 1998 and 2000, the European Parliament Science and Technological Options Assessment (STOA) published detailed analysis of the illegal activities of the US National Security Agency's spying activities in Europe. The Parliament set up the Temporary Echelon Committee, which confirmed the serious allegations that the Echelon spying network existed and was siphoning off telephone calls. Email messages for political and economic gain. However, since it reported in September 2001, the core messages of accountability were largely lost in the clamor surrounding demands for new surveillance powers and capacities in the so called US 'war against terror.' The summer 2012 revelations by Edward Snowden of the breath taking extent of US spying capacity have shown that we have entered a new and disturbing era where one state has unprecedented power to spy on all others, ostensibly for defense purposes but in practice for political and commercial advantage. We have entered a new era of global surveillance which is almost beyond imagining. Given that the rise of these new American capacities was accompanied by deception and cover up of US practices of torture, kidnap and extrajudicial execution in the ensuing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, trust in any assurances about legal safeguards has been massively eroded. What now lies in store if civilian concepts of legality and proportionality have been replaced by military doctrines and metaphors of "battle-spaces which see?" ------ -- Weitere Informationen: -- http://world-information.net/the-need-to-know/ ------ -- Rückfragehinweis: World-Information Institute Institut für Neue Kulturtechnologien/t0 ZVR 121916514 Argentinierstr. 69/11, A-1040 Wien Tel: +43 (1) 522 18 34 [email protected] http://world-information.net/ ------ -- Erklärung gemäß § 107 TKG Angesichts einer zunehmend erdrückenden Medienkonzentration leistet der nicht-kommerzielle Versand von kulturpolitischen Informationen einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Herstellung diskursiver Öffentlichkeiten. Die neuen Bestimmungen des Telekommunikationsgesetzes (TKG § 107) bedeuten eine diesbezügliche Einschränkung, denn seit 1. März 2006 dürfen e-Mail-Zusendungen ausschließlich mit dem Einverständnis der EmpfängerInnen zugesendet werden. Sollten Sie keine weiteren Informationen des Instituts für Neue Kulturtechnologien/t0 beziehen wollen, so ersuchen wir Sie um eine kurze Verständigung. _______________________________________________ Safari - Die Mailingliste fuer Kunst und Wien http://listen.esel.at/mailman/listinfo/safari MAILS SENDEN: mailto:[email protected] Anmelden: mailto:[email protected]?subject=subscribe Abmelden: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe Termin RECHTZEITIG für eSeL Mehl & kalender.esel.at eintragen: http://esel.at/fuettern >:e)
