Leveraging the INDECT Project: An Activist Strategy to Implement Privacy Ethics in EU-Funded Research

Leveraging the INDECT Project:
An Activist Strategy to Implement
Privacy Ethics in EU-Funded Research
Eddan Katz
International Affairs Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation

3rd European Privacy Open Space
EuropHaus Wien
October 26, 2009

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 1

Digital Rights and/vs. the Knowledge Economy

• Human Rights & Civil Liberties • Knowledge Economy

• Privacy • Innovation

• Contextual Integrity • Peer Production

• Equality • Network Neutrality

• Freedom of Expression • Open Infrastructure

• Association • Collaboration

• Anonymity • Interoperability

• Due Process • Socio-Technical Architecture


The Global Flow of Information

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Totality and Inﬁnity in the Information Society
• Open vs. Closed • Access vs. Control • User Rights vs. Intellectual
Property

• Privacy vs. Security • Competition vs. Monopoly
• Anonymity vs. Identiﬁcation

• Entrepreneur vs. Incumbent • Transparency vs. State secrets
• Exceptions vs. Enforcement

• Commons vs. Proprietary • Human vs. Automation
• Disintermediation vs.
Centralization
• Data Protection vs. Data • Circumvention vs. Lock
Retention
• Trust vs. Surveillance
• Community vs. Corporate
• Non-commercial vs. Monetized
• Neutrality vs. Discrimination
• Communication vs. Censorship
• Information vs. Manufacturing
• Freedom vs. Fear


Restoring the Paradigm of Due Process

• Presumption of Innocence • Particularized Suspicion

• Burden of Proof • Proportionality

• Probable Cause • Right to Appeal

• No prior restraint • Impartial Judge


The Surveillance Society

• Panopticon (Bentham) • Balancing Tests (Lyon)

• Omni-present surveillance • Coordination - how social
relations reshaped
• Disciplinary Power of the Gaze
(Foucault)
• Risk - risk management
decision-making
• Digitally Networked Environment
• Privacy - socio-technical
• Borderless Communication architecture

• Information Intermediaries
• Power - information
assymetries and social
• No sidewalks in Cyberspace conditioning


Echelon and Data Mining

• UK-USA Security Agreement [WWII] • Report on the Existence of a Global
(Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, System for the Interception of Private
and US) and Commercial Communications
(ECHELON interception system).
2001/2098(INI). (11 July 2001).
• Hierarchical Military Access to
Intelligence Information
• Voted on September 5, 2001
• Menwith Hill: Transborder
surveillance of domestic citizens • Violation of Data Protection Directive

• Industrial Espionage for Domestic • Fundamental Right to Privacy (Art. 8
Protectionism ECHR)

• Data Mining Framework Inversion • Cryptography as a Means of Self-
of Due Process Protection


The 9/11 Paradigm Shift

• Ampliﬁed Threat of Terrorist
Violence

• Continental Europe Strategic
• Distortion of Balancing Tests Constraints

• War and Security vs.
Freedoms and Rights • Diplomatic Intelligence
Reciprocity
• Technology and Responsibility
• No Effective Search
• Autonomous Technics as out-
of-Control • Governance & Ethics

• Network Effects


EU INDECT Project
• Intelligent information system supporting
observation, searching and detection for security
of citizens in urban environment
• to develop a platform for: the registration and exchange of operational
data, acquisition of multimedia content, intelligent processing of all
information and automatic detection of threats and recognition of
abnormal behaviour or violence

• to develop the prototype of an integrated, network-centric system
supporting the operational activities of police ofﬁcers, providing
techniques and tools for observation of various mobile objects

• to develop a new type of search engine combining direct search of
images and video based on watermarked contents, and the storage of
metadata in the form of digital watermarks


INDECT Project Funding & Launch

• Framework Programme 7

• Research area: SEC-2007-1.2-01 Intelligent urban environment observation system

• Start Date: 2009-01-01

• Duration: 60 months

• Project Cost: 14.86 million euro

• http://www.indect-project.eu/

• Beta Launch -> UEFA 2012 Championship (Poland/Ukraine)


Activist Intervention Proposal #1:
Going Viral on the YouTube Video

• Raising awareness by forwarding INDECT
Project YouTube video to interested
friends and colleagues and encouraging
thoughtful and educating comments.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=dl5g93m-SbA


INDECT Partners
• AGH University of • MSWIA - General • Poznan University of • Technical University of
Science and Headquarters of Police Technology (Poland) Ostrava (Czech
Technology (Poland) - (Poland) http:// http:// Republic) http://
Project Coordinator www.policja.pl/ www.put.poznan.pl www.vsb.cz
http://www.agh.edu.pl/
en

• Moviquity (Spain) http:// • Universidad Carlos III • Technical University of
www.moviquity.com/ de Madrid (Spain) Kosice (Slovakia) http://
• Gdansk University of webingles/index.htm http://www.uc3m.es www.tuke.sk/tuke?
Technology (Poland) set_language=en&cl=en
http://www.pg.gda.pl

• PSI Transcom GmbH • Technical University of
(Germany) http:// Soﬁa (Bulgaria) http:// • X-Art Pro Division
• InnoTec DATA G.m.b.H. www.psi.de/ www.tu-soﬁa.bg G.m.b.H. (Austria)
& Co. KG (Germany) http://www.x-art.at
http://www.innotec-
data.de
• Police Service of • University of Wuppertal
Northern Ireland (United (Germany) http:// • Fachhochschule
Kingdom) http:// www.uni-wuppertal.de Technikum Wien
• Grenoble INP (France) www.psni.police.uk/ (Austria) http://
http://www.grenoble- www.technikum-wien.at
inp.fr
• University of York (Great
Britain) http://
www.york.ac.uk


Make INDECT Project Deliverables Public

•University Research Center Contacts
• Computer Science research throughout the European-wide
community can make sure that the project outcomes can be
commented upon and criticized by tech & policy analysts.

•York University Social Media Project

• XML Data Corpus: Report on methodology for collection,
cleaning and uniﬁed representation of large textual data from
various sources: news reports, weblogs, chat

• Highlighted on Wikileaks - Oct. 4, 2009. Made available
publicly subsequently at http://indect-project.eu/ﬁles/


EU Security-Industrial Complex

• Ben Hayes, Statewatch. “NeoConOpticon”
• http://www.tni.org/en/report/neoconopticon

• EU Security Research Program (7 yrs.) =1.4 bln Euros.
• Funding of Applied Technology, Not Scientiﬁc Research

• Industry Capture & Policy Laundering

• Information Security industry growth

• Systematic Concentration of Entrenched Lobby


INDECT & Framework Program 7 Ethics Review

• University Research Centers & Project Partners each have an ethics review reporting
to INDECT Ethics Review Representative:

• Drew Harris, Assistant Chief Constable, Crime Operations Department, Police
Department of Northern Ireland

• DG Research: Dir. L (Science, Economy, & Society), Unit 3 (Governance & Ethics)

• Exclusion from funding: cloning, genetic manipulation.

• Ethical Issues: Research on Human Beings; Privacy and Data Collection; Use of
Animals; Research Involving Developing Countries; Dual Use


Introduce External Ethics Review and Opinion

•DG Research - Governance & Ethics Unit Continuous
Reporting Review

•Provide Technology, Law, & Policy experts for
outsourced review. SINAPSE

•European Data Protection Supervisor

•Article 46 (e) - exert prior notiﬁcation & monitoring
developments


Re-identiﬁcation & the Private/Commercial Transfer to
Law Enforcement of Potentially Identiﬁable Information

• Data can either be useful or perfectly anonymous but
never both. (Paul Ohm)

• Compelled Transfer of Personal Data for National
Security and Law Enforcement Reasons

• Behavioral Targeting Advertising supporting web growth

• Data Mining Providing Commercially Valuable Data


Institutionalize Privacy Ethics for Contextual Integrity

• Framework Program Review 7 Mid-Term Review (2010)

• Insufﬁcient focus on privacy ethics beyond Data Protection Directive

• Institutionalize privacy ethics guidelines for EU-funded security research

• Internal Support from Governance & Ethics Unit

• Data Protection Directive Consultation (Dec. 31, 2009)

• Potentially Identiﬁable Information

• Higher Standard of Privacy Ethics for Research

• Preserving Contextual Integrity between Commercial & Law Enforcement


• Please Support EFF: http://www.eff.org/support

• eddan@eff.org


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