[pp.int.general] EU social network spy system: INDECT

[Brian McNeil]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:02 +0100, Eric Priezkalns wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2009, at 07:14, Robert Mitwicki wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > If You are intresting I can get more information about this project,
> > because Profesor who invent this system is from my University.
> > Tell me only what do You want to know.

> There is a simple answer to your question.  Share all the information  
> you can on objectives, technology, techniques, results, experiments  
> performed and the data input into the research.
> 
> The public does not have visibility of the ethical oversight of this  
> project.  The solution is to put all the information in the public  
> domain and let the public reach their own ethical conclusions.

That, I think, is sage advice.

I have not - as yet - approached the professor in question, but I do
have his email address. I put this off because he is Polish and I do not
know how well he could answer questions posed by a monolingual Brit like
myself.

If any Polish speakers would like to contact me off-list, I would
welcome help in putting questions to him in Polish, and getting the
answers translated into English for publication.

Secondary to that, and not perhaps particularly obvious from my recently
published article, is that the test in question has been carried out.
That is, the York University researchers have delivered a database and
set of "predictions" from it (on Football violence) to the Polish
police. Knowing what legislation Poland has on freedom of information,
and the appropriate contact points, would be particularly useful.


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