MEPs question ‘Big Brother’ urban observation project

EurActiv reports that Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis, a Vice-President of the European Parliament, called on the European Commission in February 2011 to clarify the purpose of an EU-funded project that develops 'observation' algorithms to enhance the 'security of citizens in urban environments'.

INDECT aims at developing tools for enhancing security of citizens and protecting confidentiality of recorded and stored information. INDECT targets crimes both in virtual (e.g. Internet child pornography, promotion of totalitarian symbols, trafficking in human organs,spread of botnets, viruses, malware) and real environments (e.g. terrorism, hooliganism, thievery). Furthermore, INDECT targets also threat detection (e.g. fire, artificial crowd, abandoned luggage, and people on rails).

Website: INDECT Project http://www.indect-project.eu/

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