>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Steve Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Bob Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Here is the full page text of a European Parliament >report on the Technologies of Political Control. >http://www.hr/mprofaca/atpc1.html >AN APPRAISAL OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF POLITICAL CONTROL > >ABSTRACT > >The objectives of this report are fourfold: > >(i) to provide Members of the European Parliament with a guide > to recent advances in the technology of political control; > >(ii) to identify, analyse and describe the current state > of the art of the most salient developments; > >(iii) to present members with an account of current trends, > both in Europe and Worldwide; and > >(iv) to develop policy recommendations covering regulatory > strategies for their management and future control. > >The report contains seven substantive sections which cover respectively: > >(i) The role and function of the technology of political control; > >(ii) Recent trends and innovations (including the implications of > globalisation, militarisation of police equipment, convergence > of control systems deployed worldwide and the implications of > increasing technology and decision drift); > >(iii) Developments in surveillance technology (including the emergence > of new forms of local, national and international communications > interceptions networks and the creation of human recognition and > tracking devices); > >(iv) Innovations in crowd control weapons (including the evolution of > a 2nd. generation of so called 'less-lethal weapons' from nuclear > labs in the USA). > >(v) The emergence of prisoner control as a privatised industry, whilst > state prisons face increasing pressure to substitute technology > for staff in cost cutting exercises and the social and political > implications of replacing policies of rehabilitation with > strategies of human warehousing. > >(v) The use of science and technology to devise new efficient mark-free > interrogation and torture technologies and their proliferation from > the US & Europe. > >(vi) The implications of vertical and horizontal proliferation of this > technology and the need for an adequate political response by the > EU, to ensure it neither threatens civil liberties in Europe, nor > reaches the hands of tyrants. > >The report makes a series of policy recommendations including the need >for appropriate codes of practice. It ends by proposing specific areas >where further research is needed to make such regulatory controls >effective. The report includes a comprehensive bibliographical survey >of some of the most relevant literature. > >20 October 1998: Link to September 1998 update (101K) > >6 February 1998: Link to Bibliography (85K); zipped version (32K) > >4 February 1998 Source: Hardcopy from STOA, Luxembourg >Thanks to Axel Horns, Ulf M�ller and STOA >(SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS ASSESSMENT) > > >Look at http://www.hr/mprofaca/atpc1.html > >But by far the most organised and comprehensive site for >Echelon information is: > > http://www.cybercitycafe.com/explore/echelon.html > > > ............................................. > Bob Olsen, Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ............................................. > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
