NEW EDRI REPORT REVEALS DEPTHS OF BIOMETRIC MASS SURVEILLANCE IN
GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS AND POLAND
ELLA JAKUBOWSKA [5], POLICY ADVISOR, EDRI [6]
In a new independent research report [7] by the Edinburgh International
Justice Initiative (EIJI) [8], EDRi reveals the shocking extent of
unlawful biometric mass surveillance practices in Germany, the
Netherlands and Poland which are taking over our public spaces like
train stations, streets, and shops. The EU and its Member States must
act now to set clear legal limits to these practices which create a
state of permanent monitoring, profiling and tracking of people.
"Whilst EU laws say that each of us is innocent until proven guilty,
the prevalence of biometric mass surveillance practices across Europe
flips this on its head. Each of us is treated as suspicious until
'proven' innocent, by often discriminatory and persecutory deployments
of systems that never should have been rolled out in the first place,"
says Ella Jakubowska, Policy Advisor at EDRi. Read more [1]. (Summaries
available in German [2], Dutch [3], Polish [4])
--
Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124
Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it [9])
FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it)
CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it)
https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39
348 8283101, fax: +390506212040
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The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in
the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by
kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to
combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the
benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra
incentive to embark on this great task.
Above all, remember your humanity.
-- Sir Joseph Rotblat
I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its
subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous
affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of
computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and
so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and
immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process
of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of
our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious
of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again
and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use
of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to
have contributed to this use?"
-- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 -
Aug. 1986]
Links:
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[1]
https://edri.org/our-work/new-edri-report-reveals-depths-of-biometric-mass-surveillance-in-germany-the-netherlands-and-poland/
[2]
https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/The-Rise-and-Rise-of-Biometric-Mass-Surveillance-in-the-EU_German-Summary.pdf
[3]
https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/The-Rise-and-Rise-of-Biometric-Mass-Surveillance-in-the-EU_Dutch-Summary.pdf
[4]
https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/The-Rise-and-Rise-of-Biometric-Mass-Surveillance-in-the-EU_Polish-Summary.pdf
[5] https://twitter.com/ellajakubowska1
[6] https://edri.org/
[7] https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/EDRI_RISE_REPORT.pdf
[8] https://internationaljusticeinitiative.com/
[9] http://www.isti.cnr.it
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