EU-miljard till forskning om övervakning

Privacy International har gjort en sammanställning över kända EU-finansierade projekt på övervakningsområdet.

Några exempel ur detta akronymernas helvete:

• Prediction and Visual Intelligence for Security Information (PREVISION); €8m (2019-2021); A predictive platform running analytics through data obtained from ”online social networks, the open web, the Darknet, CCTV and video surveillance systems, traffic and financial data sources, and many more”.
• Prediction and Visual Intelligence for Security Information (ROXANNE); €7m (2019-2022); Project aimed at identifying people in intercepted communications using face & speech identification, soon to be trialled in 9 countries.
• Fighting Crime and TerroRism with an IoT-enabled Autonomous Platform based on an Ecosystem of Advanced IntelligEnce, Operations, and InveStigation Technologies (CREST); €7m (2019-2022); A predictive analytics platform monitoring online content and data from ”Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, and for sharing ”digital evidence based on blockchain” technology.
• InterCONnected NEXt-Generation Immersive IoT Platform of Crime and Terrorism DetectiON, PredictiON, InvestigatiON, and PreventiON Services (CONNEXION); €5m (2018-2021); A predictive policing tool relying on social media, ’dark web’, and IoT data.
• From mobile phones to court – A complete FORensic investigation chain targeting MOBILE devices (FORMOBILE); €6.9m (2019-2022); Another mobile phone extraction system, which will also develop ”tools” for ”the acquisition of previously unavailable mobile data, unlocking mobile devices, as well as the decoding and analysis of mobile data”.
• Multimedia Analysis and Correlation Engine for Organised Crime Prevention and Investigation (MAGNETO); €5.3 (2018-2021); Data analytics platform to conduct tasks like relationship mapping in large datasets and predicting threats.
• Advanced tools for fighting oNline Illegal TrAfficking (ANITA); €4.9m (2018-2021); Data analytics programme monitoring data from the internet and crypto-currencies.
• Intelligence Network and Secure Platform for Evidence Correlation and Transfer (INSPECTr); €6.9m (2019-2022); Another analytics platform for ”gathering, analysing, prioritising and presenting key data to help in the prediction, detection and management of crime”.
• Novel Social Data Mining Platform to Detect and Defeat Violent Online Radicalization (INSIKT); €1.5m (2017-2020); Software developed by a Spanish companies which scrapes through social media to identify terrorist propaganda.
• Lawful evidence collecting and continuity platform development (LOCARD); €6.8m (2019-2022); A forensics system to extract data from devices for use in court, which also includes ”a crawler to detect and correlate online deviant behaviour”.
• Video analysis for Investigation of Criminal and TerrORIst Activities (VICTORIA); €5m (2017-2020); An automatic surveillance video analysis system.
• Analysis System for Gathered Raw Data (ASGARD); €12m (2016-2020); This project will develop, maintain and evolve a tool set for the extraction, fusion, exchange and analysis of Big Data, including cyber-offense data for forensic investigation.

Till detta kommer ett antal program för bland annat gränsbevakning och för att avskräcka flyktingar från att söka sig till Europa. Under perioden 2014-20 handlar det om c:a 80 miljoner euro, det vill säga över 800 miljoner SEK. För hela listan och utförligare beskrivning, följ länken nedan.

Om vi fokuserar på projekten ovan, då kan man räkna med att flera kommer att ingå i framtidens automatiserade, AI-styrda övervakningsapparat – kopplad till kameraövervakning med beteendeanalys, automatiserad ansiktsigenkänning i realtid och samkörd med allehanda register och övervakningssystem.

Notera för övrigt kopplingen till analys av medborgarnas aktiviteter på internet i flera av punkterna.

Om endast några av projekten ovan blir verklighet kommer vi inte bara att leva i en övervakningsstat av aldrig tidigare skådad omfattning – utan även i en automatiserad övervakningsstat, där algoritmer styr vem och vad som kommer att anses vara suspekt.

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