So, in an effort to out do the MIT team, it seems the EU has put together Project Indect. The more I read about this, the more intriguing it becomes. Tying it to the DNA database in the UK, full time monitoring of the entire society for abnormal behavior… we are on the cusp of Precrime Police.
The article, by Ian Johnston, is titled:
EU funding ‘Orwellian’ artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for “abnormal behaviour”
I’m not conspiracy theorist, just a realist. Centrist in nature actually. I don’t discount anything because there are a lack of facts at the time. I also don’t suggest that something is fact because a couple of people say it is. I keep digging until I can’t dig. For my blog, I write about things that are interesting and this is definitely interesting.
From the article:
A five-year research programme, called Project Indect, aims to develop computer programmes which act as “agents” to monitor and process information from web sites, discussion forums, file servers, peer-to-peer networks and even individual computers.
Its main objectives include the “automatic detection of threats and abnormal behaviour or violence”.
Several years ago, I began research into a surveillance tool to assist soldiers overseas. Primarily, it was a low earth orbit satellite system to monitor all of the roads in a given combat zone, as well as regions of prospective combat. It would monitor the roads for activity, and track anyone who came into the zone, and left the zone after some period of time. It would track the parties all the way to their destination for later pickup by authorities.
I say this as just an example of how and what, is proper surveillance. It shouldn’t be used domestically. It should assist our troops. I have no problem with projects like this if it is in defense of a combat theater. But the whole planet is not a combat zone. The US used and presumably still use Echelon. A nearly identical application.
Interesting times we live in. 35 years ago, we wouldn’t have heard about this except by way of those conspiratorial thinkers. I like to say to people that “just because you don’t see them, it doesn’t mean you aren’t being followed.”
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