Europe rules against general passenger data slurp The European Data Protection Supervisor has taken a view against Passenger Name Record transfers, which obliges airlines to hand over the personal data they hold on every passenger entering or leaving the European Union. This includes names, addresses, emails and other contact details which are handed over in the name of ( …
I've never understood this, if you're that determined to achieve your fundamentalist and nefarious goals, sorting out some fake ID is the first, maybe second after get a gun and some ammo, on your terrorism checklist!
Now when is this data-sharing stupidity going to be stopped by our American cousins?
Mark Thomas nailed this one in his program "Seriously Organised Criminal", the government seems to believe the bad guys can't lie if you make them fill in a form!
In real life, you would want to use somebody who has a squeaky clean background, and use thier real identities (less chance of being caught with fakes).
What the data slurps, and forms can't do, is mind read the terrorist bording the aircraft. El Al get around this by using trained humans in the departure areas to profile passengers.
One can therefore assume that the officials are;
A) Stupid
B) Persuing another agenda and using this as an excuse
C) All of the above
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If the EU can't come up with a good reason to collect data on everyone (including non-EU citizens) entering the EU, then where does this leave the EU's data grab agreement with the US?
Surely, the conclusion must be that the EU will find it increasingly difficult to justify meeting US demands to pass all US-bound passenger data to the US; data that INCLUDES EU citizens.
I still haven't found a credible answer why the EU doesn't ask for US data to be submitted along the same conditions. As far as I know, the original 9/11 boys were resident there.
I mean, it's SUPPOSED to be for fighting crime, but the US is not even bothering anymore to keep up that pretense.
... but whether it'll do anything? The way various data"sharing" shticks got pushed through fails to inspire confidence in the integrity of all the cogs, large and small alike, that make the EU machinery "work".
I also note that "privacy" still is very much an ad-hoc tick box-item that's mosty there for the sake of lip service, if it's there at all. What about an overarching privacy-enforcing structure, in the "defend by default" sense?
I realize they are looking for contact information, but the article is probably in need of clarification.
If they are after EMAIL, then they are rifling through every last known direct and peripheral contact or note card or addressee of a person of interest. If they are using commingled emails and hand phone contacts, then this is where Google's in-the-recent-past mandatory synching is truly evil. On-the-go addressees in the hand phone get or got synched with one's gmail or related account. Old cruft i never WANTED in my android hand phone got shoved onto me. If the law enforcement agencies want that data, though, they'll get it, sycnced or not.
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This software I first noticed around year 2000. While it is deeply invasive in the authorized hands, it can be DEEEEEPLY invasive give its full power.
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http://www.visualanalytics.com/default.cfm?Tier=2&MenuItemName=InvestigationSolutions&URL=%2Fsolutions%2FcriminalInvestigation%2Ecfm
Money Laundering analysis is a particularly interesting area of this app.
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I realize they are looking for contact information, but the article is probably in need of clarification.
If they are after EMAIL, then they are rifling through every last known direct and peripheral contact or note card or addressee of a person of interest. If they are using commingled emails and hand phone contacts, then this is where Google's in-the-recent-past mandatory synching is truly evil. On-the-go addressees in the hand phone get or got synched with one's gmail or related account. Old cruft i never WANTED in my android hand phone got shoved onto me. If the law enforcement agencies want that data, though, they'll get it, sycnced or not.
Think of this application: Visual Analytics and JMP:
http://www.jmp.com/
http://www.visualanalytics.com/
http://www.visualanalytics.com/default.cfm?Tier=3&MenuItemName=CombatTerrorismSolutions&URL=%2Fsolutions%2FcombatingTerrorism%2Ecfm
This software I first noticed around year 2000. While it is deeply invasive in the authorized hands, it can be DEEEEEPLY invasive give its full power.
http://www.visualanalytics.com/solutions/images/intelligenceB.gif
http://www.visualanalytics.com/default.cfm?Tier=2&MenuItemName=InvestigationSolutions&URL=%2Fsolutions%2FcriminalInvestigation%2Ecfm
Money Laundering analysis is a particularly interesting area of this app.
Think you can hide behind proixies, anonymizers, and 250 routers, brouters, bridges and virtual networks? Think again.
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