Anonymous - What is INDECT 2013 (New Version) [english] Welcome to INDECT homepage — indect-home. Listening to you at last: EU plans to tap cell phones. Monday, October 19, 2009 A report accidentally published on the Internet provides insight into a secretive European Union surveillance project designed to monitor its citizens, as reported by Wikileaks earlier this month. Project INDECT aims to mine data from television, internet traffic, cellphone conversations, p2p file sharing and a range of other sources for crime prevention and threat prediction. The €14.68 million project began in January, 2009, and is scheduled to continue for five years under its current mandate.
INDECT produced the accidentally published report as part of their "Extraction of Information for Crime Prevention by Combining Web Derived Knowledge and Unstructured Data" project, but do not enumerate all potential applications of the search and surveillance technology. Police are discussed as a prime example of users, with Polish and British forces detailed as active project participants. Testing Project INDECT's potential usefulness, and the leaked 'sales-pitch' E.K. EU social network spy system brief, INDECT Work Package 4, 2009.
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The summary is approved by the editorial board. See here for a detailed explanation of the information on this page. If you have similar or updated material, see our submission instructions. Release date October 5, 2009 This file, marked "confidential", describes development of an EU-funded intelligence gathering system ("INDECT work package 4") designed to comb weblogs, chat sites, news reports, and social networking sites to inorder to build up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships. The file was (accidentally?) Project contact, DZIECH, Andrzej (Professor) Tel: +48-12-6172616 Fax: +48-12-6342372 Context European Union.